The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-23
Sfbifbanr Sfbuapps.
To the People Of the Southern States:
OFFICE OF UDOEPHO WOLFE.
Soc Importer of the Schieddm aromatic Sch7opps,
No .22 Beavcr.strcct.
New YORK November 5, 1858.

To the People OF the Southern States:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now 30 widely known as WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
SCINAPPS, was Introduced into the world under
tho endorsement of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession twenty years ago, Its
proprietor was we'll aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations He, therefore, endeavored to invest il
with strongest possible safeo uard against counter
feiters and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous. 1t was submitted to d'siin'
gulshed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured Its purl-
ty and properties having been thus ascertaned, sam
pies of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the Lending practitioners in
tho United States, for purposes OF experiment.
circular requesting trial of the preparation and
report OF the result, accompanied each specimen.
Four thousand of the most eminent medical men in
the Union promptly responded. Their opinions Of
the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession no reliance could be placed on the
ordin.ry liquors of commerce, all OF which were
more or less adulterated. and therefore unit for
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength of the OF of juniper, which formed one c
the principal ingredients of the Schnappa, together
with an upalloyed character of the alcoholic ele-
ment, give it. in the estimation Of the faculty, o
marked superiority every other diffusive stmu-
liant as q diureic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank were published in con-
densed form, and enclosed with each bottle of the
Schnlpps one of the guaran tees OF Its genuine
neqs. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent was obtained for the article, the
label was copyrighted, fac simte of the proprieors
autograph signature WIS attached to each label and
cover his and that of the preparation were en-
Tossed the bottles and the corks were sealed with
his private seal. No article had over been sold in
this country under the name Of Schnapps prior to
the introduction Of Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps in 1851; and the label was deposited, as
his trado mark, in the United States District Court
for the Southern District Of New York during that
year.
It might be supposed by persons una:quained
with the dIring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation othonorabe merchants by vend'
iug deeterous trash under their name that the pro-
ections so carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have preclu1ed the inlroductions md sole OF
counterfets. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors. The trade
mark of tn proprietor has been stoen the indorse-
| mcnt which his Scaiedam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from tho medical profession has been
claimed by mendGious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dshonora6le retailers after disposing ofthe genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most dele'erious Of al liquors, and
thus mado his name and brlnd cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom tho sclIcdam Arom1tic schnapps is pre-
scribed as remedy, are equally interes:e with the
proprietor in the esccon and suppression OF these
nefarious practices The genuine article, manuiac'
tured ct the establishment Of the undersigned III
Schiedam, Holland, is distilled froai barley OF the
fuest quality and favored with IN essential e1trac
Of the berry of The Italian uripe of uncqualled pu
rity. By process unknown in the preparation o.
any other liquor it is treed from every acrimonious
| and corrosive clement.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families In the Southern States
the sale of cheap limitations Of the Schiedam Aro
mahc Schnlpps in those markets; and travellers
who are in the habit Of using it as an antidote to th
baneful influence Of unwholesome river water. tes
tify that cheap gin, put up in schiedam bottles L
| frequently puliucd CT upon tho unwary. Th'
egorts OF the undersigned have been requested t.
institute inquiries on the Subject, and to forward
him the names of such parties as they may asctr
tain to bo engaged in the atrocous system OF decep
ton In conclusion. the undersigned would say tina
| he has produced, from under the hands of the mos
distinguished men Of science in America, proofs un
arswerable Of the purity and medicinal excel
| lence of the Schedam Aromatic Schnarps tina
lie has expended many thousand dollars in sur
rounding it with guarantees AMI safeguards, which
he designed should protect the public and himsel
against fraudulent imitations that lie has shown 1
10 be the only liquor in the world that can be uni
formly depended upon as uuaduterated; thlt lie ha;
challenged investigation. analysis, comparison ant
| experiment III all Its forms; and from every ordea
the preparation VIII. bears his name, zeal and trade
mark, has como of triumphant He, therefore, feel:
| IL duty he owss to lis ieow-citz Ms generally, tc
the medical profession and the flick, to denounce
and expose the charlatns who counterfeit these evi
denotes of identity, and he calls upon the press and
the ublc to aid him In his efforts to remedy so grea
| al oYil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians and che nists of this city will
provo to the reader that all goods sold by the undor
sisncl are oil that they are repre- ented to be.
UDoLpHO WOLFE
/ feel bound to say. that regard your Schna2ps
as beiug In every respect pre-eminently pure, and
deserving OF medical patronage At a events, it fs
the purcst possible article of Holland Gin. hereto
toro urobtanable. and such may DO safely pre-