The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-20
Sfhifoanl Sfhnapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLPHo WOLFE. !
Sole Impe,ter of the Schieaam Aromatic Schnapps,
No. az Beaver-street.
NTr Vopu November e 1853
To the People of the Southern States:


| To the People of the Southern States:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE.
now so widely known as woLFE'S sCHIEDAM
SC9NAPPS, was in reduced into the world under
| the endorsement of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession some twenty years ago, Its
proprietor was well aware that it could not wholly
| escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations. He therefore, endeavored to invest II
With strongest possible safeguard against counter
feers, and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
| cult and dangerous. 1t was submitted to dstin'
| gushed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit manufactured. Its puri-
y and properties having ocen thus asce rtained sam
pies of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including oil the leading practitioners in
the 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 Upion promptly responded. Their opinions OF
the article were unanimously favorable. Such q
preparation, they said, had long beon wanted by
the profession as no reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce, all OF which were
moro or less adulterated, and therefore unfit for
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength of the oi of juniper. which formed one OF
the principal ingredients OF the SchIIapps, together
with an uralloyed character of the alcoholic ele-
ment give it, in the estimation of the faculty, a
marked superiority over every other dusive stinu-
liant as diure ic, tonic and restorative.
| These satisfactory credentials from professional
men Of the highest rank were published in con-
ensed form, and enclosed with each bottle of the
schnlpps as one of the guarantees Of its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted patent was obtained for the article, the
label copyrighted, fac simiie of the proprieols
autograph signature was attached to each labc and
cover his name aud that of the preparation were en-
Tossed on the bottles and the corks were sealed with
his private seal. No article had ever been sold in
this country under the name Of Schnapps prior to
the introduction of wofe'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"quain'ec
with the dring character of the pira.es who prey
upon the reputation ofhonoraOc merchants by vend-
ing der.erous trash under their name that the ro-
tections so carefully thrown around these Schnapps
counterfcits. They seem, however. only to have
stimulates the rapacity Of impostor'. The trade
mark OF til, proprietor has been stolen; the indorsc-
mcnt which his Schicdan Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious hunbuss; his labels and
bottles have been inflated his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than all
dishonorabe retailers after dsposing of The genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gip the most deleorious Of ell liquors. and
thus made his name and brJnd cover for poison.
Tie public, the medical profession and the sick.
for whom The schiedam Arom tic schnapps is pre-
scribed as remedy, arc equally intercse with the
proprietor In tho detection and suppression Of these
nc:arious practices. The genuine aticlo, manuac-
tured at tie establishment of the undersigned in
Schiedam, Holland, is trtil.cd fro barley of the
finest quality und favored with an essential extract
Of the berry Of the italian juripe of uncqualcd pu-
rity. BY process unknown in the preparation OF
rny other liquor it is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive element.
Conlpllints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in the Southern States OF
the sale OF cheap limitations OF the schiedam Aro-
Inatic Schn1pps in those mnrke:s; and travellers
who are in tho habit OF using it as an anidote to the
baneful influence Of unwholesome river water. ties.
ify that cheap gin, put up IN Schiedam bottles Is
frequently palmcd Of upon the unwary. The
agents of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on the subject, ana to forward to
him the names Of such parties as they may asctr-
tain to be engaged in the atrocious system of decep-
tion In conclusion. The undersigned would say that
he has produced from under tho hands cf the most
dst;ngui: :hcu men CT science In America proofs un
answcrable of the purity and medicinal excel
lcncc of tho Schicdam Aromatic SchnaIps that
lie has expended many thousand dollats in sur.
rounding it with guarantees aud safeguards, which
he designed should project the public and himself
against fraudulent limitations; that be has shown 1t
10 be the only liquor In the world that can be uni
formly depended upon a. unadult-rated; tn le hos
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in oil Its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation wh bears his name, seal and trade
m,rb, has como cf triumphant. He, therefore, feels
it duly he owes to lis icllowcit'z Ms generally to
tho medical p5otts tssion and the sick, to dcnounce
md expose the char.atlns who counterfeit these evil
denotes OF identity and he calls upon the press and
the ublic to aid him in his efforts to remedy great
an evil.
The following letters aud certificates from tho
leading physicians and chenis OF this city will
prove to The reader that all goods sold Sy the undcr
signed are oil that they are repro ented TO be.
UDoLPHo WOLFE