The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-18
Sfhifoan1 Stbaapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLPHO WOLFE,
Sole Impo, ter Of the Schiedam Aromatic Scanapps,
No 22 Benver-strcet.
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NEW YORK. NOVEMBER 8, 1865.
To the People Of the Southern States:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE
now so widely known as WOLFE'S sCHIEDAM
SCaNAPPS, was in reduced into the world under
the endorsement of four thousand LEADING members
of the medical profession some twenty years ago. its
proprietor well aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and Ia, II
preparations. h. therefore, endeavored to invest II
with strongest possible safea against counter
feiters, and to Iendcr all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous 1t was submitted to distin-
gulshed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purcst spirit ever manufactured. Its puri
y and properties having been thus ascertained sam
pies of the article wer, forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners in
the United States, for purposes OF experiment. a
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 ot
the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession as no reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce, oil OF which wero
more or less adulterated, and therefore UNFIT for
medical purpose The peculiar ex ellcnce and
strength Of the OF of juniper, which formed one OF
the principal ingredients of the Schnapps, together
with an unalloyed character Of the alcoholic ele-
meDt. give 1t. in the estimation of the faculty, q
marked superiority over every other dusivc stinu-
liant as diure;ic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men Of the highest rank we're published in con-
denscd form, and enclosed with each bottle OF the
schn1pps. as one Of the guarantees of its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent obtained for the article, the
label was copyrighted oc sinie Of the propIiefors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his aud that Of the preparation were en-
Tossed on the bottles aud the corks were sealed with
bis private seal. No article had over been sold in
this country under the name Of Schnapps prior to
the introduction of Woife's Schiedam Aromatic
schnapps in 1851; and the label was deposited, as
his trade mark, in the United States District Court
for the Southern District of New York during that
year.
It might be supposed by persons una 'Gualn'ed
with the ring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhono-able merchants by vcnd-
ing deetcr trash under their name, that thc ro-
tections 50 carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precluded the introductoas and sale Of
countericits. They seem, however, only to have
stimula ed the rapacity of impostor'. The trade
mark OF tn proprietor has been stolen; the ndorsc-
ment which his schiedam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious hupbuss; his labels and
bottles havo bceu initiated. his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than ALL
dishonorable retailers after disposng Of the genuine
coutents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common ein the most dcle'orious of all liquors. and
thus made his name and br,nd cover for poison.
Tho public, the medical profession and the SICK
for whom The Schielam hrom tic Schnapps is pre-
scrbcd as remedy, are equally intercs,e with The
proprietor in the detection and suppression OF these
neIarious practices. Tho genuine article, manuiac-
tured at tie establishment Of the undersigned in
schiedam, Holland, is distilled from barley of the
finest quality, and favored with essential extract
of the berry of the italian juspo of uncquaed pu.
riy. BY process unknown in the preparation Of
ary other LIQUOR it is ircol from every acrimonious
and corrosive clement.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in the southern States OF
the sale of cheap limitations of the Schicdam Aro-
matte Scbn,pps in those markets; and travellers,
who are in the habit OF using it as an antidoe TO the
Ianeful influence of unwholesome river water tes-
tify that cheap Gn put up il Schiedam bottles, Is
frequently ralmed on upon the unwary. The
ocent, OF the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries the bjec ana to forward 10
him the names OF such parties as they may a'c'r-
tain to be engaged in the atrocious system of decep
tion In conclusion. the undersigned would say that
he has produced from under the hands # the most
distng1li hod men Of science in America, proofs un
answerable of the purity and medicinal excel
lcnce of the Schiedam Aromatic Schnarps that
ho has expended many thousand dollars in sur
rounding it with guarantees and safeguards which
he designed should protect the public and himself
against fraudulent limitations; that lie has shown 1t
10 be the only liouor in tho world that be uni
formly depended upon unadulteratcd; TINT he has
challenged Investigation. analysis, comparison and
experiment in oil lis iorms; anil from every ordeal
the preparation viii bears his pamc seal and trade
m1rk. has come of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
il duty he owes to his cllow-citiz us generally to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charatIns who counterfeit these evil
denotes of identity and hc calls upon the press and
the ,ubc to aid him in his efforts to remedy SO great
an evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians and che nsts of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under-
signc are oil that ,hcy repre- euted TO be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
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