The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-14

So e Imp3, Ter IF the Schieddm Aromatic SchndPps,
No 22 BeRver-strect.
NEW YORK, November 8, 1868. J
To the People of the Southern States'
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE.
now so widely known as WoLFE'S sCHIEDAM
ScHNAPPS. 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 1t could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations. He, therefore, endeavored TO invest 1t
With slrua- possible safeguard against counter
feiers, and - render all attempts to pirate 1t difh-
cult and d "serous. It was submitted to ds,ln'
gushed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit manufactured Its purl-
ty and properties having been thus SAM
pies of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners in
the United States for purposes OF experiment.
circular requesting trin 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 az reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors Of commerce. all Of which were
moro or less adulterated, and therefore unfit for
medical purpose The peculiar e1 elence and
strength of the oi of juniper. which formed one OF
the principal ingredients of the Schnapps together
with an unalloyed character Of the alcoholic Gle
ment give it. in the estimation of the faculty,
marked superiority over every other dusive SD nu-
LIANT as diureiic, 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
schnapps as one Of the guarantees of it's genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud were Ilso
adopted; patent was obtained for the article, the
label was copyrighted fac snliie of the proprie!ors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his name aud that of the preparation were en-
Tossed he bottles and the corks were sealed with
his private seal. No article had over been sold in
this country under the name Of Schnarps prior to
the introduction of Wolfe's schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps in 1851; and the label was derosited, as
his trade mark in the United States District Court
for the Southern District Of New York during thht
year.
It might be supposed by persons unacquainied
with the d,rng character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vend-
ing deleerous trash under their name, that tho FRO
tections carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have precluded the introluctons and Gale OF
counterfeits. They seem, however, only to have
stmula' ed the rapacity of impostors. The trade
mark OF th proprietor has been stolen the ndorsc-
ment which his schicdam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated his advertisements para
phrased his circulars copied and worse than oil,
dishonorabe retailers after dsposing Of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most dele!erious Of all liquors. and
thus made his name and brjnd cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is pre-
scribed q remedy, arc equally intercse' with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression OF these
nearious practices. The genuine a'tclc, manuiac-
tured at tie establishment Of the undersigned in
schiedaln, Holland, is distilled from barley Of The
finest quality and favored with an essential extract
of the berry of the Italian uipe- of uncquacd pu-
rity. by q process unknown in the preparation OF
any other liquor it is trcoi from every acrimonious
and corrosive element.
Complaints have been received from tho leading
physicians and families in the Southern States Of
the sale Of cheap limitations of the schiedam hro-
matte Schnapps in those marke's; and travellers,
WHO are in the habit OF using it as an antidoe to the
bancful influence of unwho,esomo river water tes-
tiry that cheap gin put up IN Schiedam BOTTLES, Is
trt qucnuy polmed of upon the unwary. Inc
agents OF the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries the subject, ana to forward TO
him the names of such parties as they may ascrr-
tain to be engaged in the arocious system OF decep-
tion In conclusion. the undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under the hands OF the most
distinguished men of science in America proofs lin
answerable Of the purity and medicinal excel
lence Of the schiedam Aromatic Schnafps; that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur
rounding it with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should protect the public and himself
against fraudulent imitations that be has shown II
10 be tho only liquor in the world that can be uni
formly depended upon as unadulterated thit Ee has
challenged investigation, analysis comparison and
experiment in all Its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation VIII bears his name, seal and trade
mark, has come of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
il duty he owes to his iellowctz ms generally, to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charatIns who counterfeit these evil
denotes OF identity and he calls upon the press and
the public to aid him in his efforts remedy so great
an evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians aud che nists OF this city Will
prove to The reader that all goods sold by the under
signe are all that they repre- ented to be.
UDoLPHO WOLFE.
Ifeel bound to say, that regard your Selma 3ps
deserving OF medical patronage. At oil events, 1t Is
the purest possible article OF Holland Gin. hereto