Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-09-22
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AL discoveries aud Inventions OF approved value.
servstves Of health remedies for disease give rise
fortunately 10 perncous coanerfets and limitations The
more popular the article, the eagerly its name its
credena its external appearance copied by
puous knaves, Who destitute OF the ability produce
anything useful them have sufficient cunning
make capital Of the discoveries others Ia has
said that hypocrisy the homage which vice pays
virtue, and might with equal TRUTH be remarked that
the counteres OF valuable remedies the tribute paid
| by poison mongers to practical science.
When the pure medicinal restorative, widely
known as Wofes Schiedam Schnapps, int oduced
the world under the endorsement OF four thousand leading
members OF the medical profession five years ago
its proprietor well that IL could wholly es
cape the penalty attached all and useful prepare
tons He, therefore, cndeavored invest IL with the
strongest possible safeguard against conter-ers and
render all attempts to pirate difficult aud dangerous IL
submitted distinguished chemists for analysis and
pronounced by them the purest spirit manufactured
Its purity and properties having been thus ascertane
samples Of the article forwarded thousand ply
-eians including all the leading practitioners in the Uni
ted States, for purposes of experiment circular,
que-tng trial OF the preparation and report OF the
suit accompanied each specimen. -Four thousand Of the
most eminent medical in the Union promptly rcspon
ded Their opinions of the article unanimously Ia
vorable. Such preparation, they said, had long been
wanting by the profession, reliance could be placed
the ordinary liquors of commerce. all OF which
less aduteraed and therefore unfit medicinal
purposes The peculiar excellence aud strength OF the
oil OF juniper which formed OF the principal ingrcd
ens OF the Schnapps together with the unaoyed charac
ter of the alcoholic element give it, in the estimation OF
the faculty marked superiority every other usve
stmuant a diure &c, tonic and restorative
These satisfactory credentials from professional OF
the highest rank published condensed form, and
enclosed with each bottle OF the Schnapps OF the
guarantees of its genuneness Other precautions against
fraud also adopted; patent obtained for the
cle, the label copyrighted FAC smile OF the pro-
pretors autograph signature attached to each label
and his aud that OF the preparation
the bottles and the corks scaled with his
private seal No Article had been sold in this
ry under the of schnapps prior to the introduction
Of wolie's Scheam aromatic schnapps in 1885, and the
II hts fraa in Tho ITnital
District Court for the Southern district OF New York du
ring that year.
IL might supposed persons unacquainted with the
daring character OF the pirates who prey upon the epu
honorable merchants by vending deeterious trash
under their name that the projections carefully thrown
around the schnapps would have precuded the inroduc
and sale OF counterfeits They however only
have stimulated the rspacy of mposters. The trade
mark the proprietor has been stolen the endorsement
which his Schedam aromatic schnspps alone received from
the medical profession has been claimed by mendacous
humbugs; his labels aud bottles have been initiated his
araphrascd his circulars copied aud
than all dshonorahle retailers, after dsposng of the
nuine contents his bottles have filled them up with
GIN the dceterous Of all liquors, and thus
made his name aud brand cover for poison
The public, the medical profession and the sick, for
whom the Schedam aromatic schnapps i prescribed a
remedy equally Interested With the proprietor in the
detection and suppression Of these nefou practices
The genuine article manufactured the establishment OF
the undersigned in Schedsn Holland, is distilled from
barley Of the finest quality and favored with essential
of the berry OF Italian juniper OF unequaed purity
BY process unknown IN tie preparation OF any other
liquor l. freed from actid and corrosive element
Complaints have been received from the leading firms
IN many the Southern and Western cities OF the sale OF
cheap limitations OF the Schiedam aromatic schnapps in
those markets. and travellers who in the habit Of using
II andoe the baneful influence OF UNIV holesone
river water testify that cheap gin, put up ia Schiedsm
bottles is frequently pAlmed off upon the unwary. The
agents Of the undersigned have been requested TO institute
inquiries the subject and TO forward to him the
parties they may ascertain to be engaged in the
system OF such deception. In conclusion, the
undersigned would say that he has produced, from under
the hands Of the distinguished of science in
America proofs cradle OF the purity and medicinal
excellence of the Schieam aromatic chnapps that he has
expended many thousand dollars in surrounding it with
guarantees and safeguards, which he designed should pro-
tect the public and himself against fraudulent mitaons
that has shown il be the ouv liquor in the world
that be Uniformly depended upon unaduterat,d;
that he mas challenged Investigation, analysis Comparison
and experiment. in all its FORMS and from every ordeal the
preparation which bears his name seal aud trade mark
has come of triumphant He therefore feels il duty he
his fellow citizens generally, to the medical profess
aud the SICK to denounce and expose the chaatans
Who counterfeit these evidences OF identity and he calls
upon the press aud the public aid him in his efforts
remedy 80 great an evil UDOLPHO WOLFE.