The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-12-04
Office of Udolpho Wolfe,
SOLE 1AIPoRTER OF THE
SCHIEDAM AROMATIC SCHSApps.

% BEAVER STREET, New YORK, Nov. 8, 'GS.
To The People Of tie Southern States.
When the pure medicinal restorative.
now so widely known as WOLFE'S SCHIE-
DAM SCHNAPPS, was introduced into the
world, under the endorsement of 1000
leading members of the medical profess
sion, some twenty years ago, its propre-
tor was well aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and
useful preparations. Hc, therefore, en-
deavored to invest it with the strong est
possible safeguard against counterfcters,
and to render all attempts to pirate it DIFF
ficult and dangerous. 1t was submitted
to distinguished chemists for ANALYSIS, and
pronounced by them the purest spirit ever
manufactured. It's purity and properties
having been thus ascertained, samples of
the article were forwarded to 10, 900 ply 81.
clans, including all the leading practition-
ers in the United States, for purposes of
experiment. A circular, requesting a trial
OF the preparation and @ report of the re-
suit, accompanied each specimen. 1000
of the most eminent medical men in the
Union promptly responded. Their opinions
of the article were unanimously favorable
Such a preparation, they said, had long
been wanted by the profession, as no reli-
anco 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 oil of juni-
per, which formed one of the principal in
gradients of tho Schnapps. together with
an unalloyed character of the alcoholic
element, give it, iii the estimation of the
faculty, marked superiority over every
other diffusive stimulant as n diuretic,
tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from pro-
fessional men of tho highest rank we're
published in condensed form, and en-
closed with each bottle of the Schnapps,
as one of the guarantees of it's genuine.
ness. Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent was obtained
for the article, the label was copyrighted,
aJdc Simae Of the proprietor's autograph
signature was attached to each label and
cover, his name and that of the prepara.
ton were embossed on the bottles, and the
corks were sealed with his private seal.
No article had ever been sold in this coun-
try under the name of Schnapps prior to
the introduction Of Wolfe's Schiedam Aro.
matte Schnapps, in 1851; and the label was
deposited, as his trade mark, in the United
States District Court for the Southern Dis
trict of New York during that year.
1t might bo supposed, by persons unac-
quainted with the daring character of the
pirates who prey upon tho reputation Of
honorable merchants, by vending delete.
rious trash under their name, that the
projections so carefully thrown around
these Schnapps would have precluded the
introductions and sale of countcrfeits.
They seem, however, only to have stimu.
lated the rapacIIy or Imposters. The trade
mark Of the proprietor has been stolen;
the endorsement which his Schiedam
Aromatic Schnapps alone received from
the medical profession has been claimed
by mendacious humbugs; his labels AMI
bottles have been initiated, his advertise
ments paraphrased, his Gil culars copied,
and, worse than all, dishonorable retailers,
after disposing OF the genuine contents OF
his bottles, have filed them up with COM
mon gin, the most deleterious of all
liquors, and thus made his name and
brand q cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and
the SICK, for whom the Bchiedam Aromatic
Schnapps is prescribed as q remedy, are
equally interested with the proprietor in
the detectlon and suppression of these he
farious practices. The genuine article.
manufactured at the establishment of the
undersigned, in Schiedam, Holland. is dis
titled from barley of the finest quality.
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