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SfbisSann Stbnapps.
OFF ICE OF UDOLPHO WOLFE,
Soc Imp0, ter of the Schieddm Aromatic Schndpps,
No 22 Eeavcr-strcet.
NEW Y0RK November 3. 1868.

| SCANAPPS, was in reduced into the world under
tho endorsement of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession some twenty years ago, Its
proprietor Wac we'll aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations He, therefore, endeavored 10 invest il
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feitcrs, and to Icudcr all attempts to pirate it diff
| cult and dangerous. 1t was submitted to distin.
| gulshed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the pures spirit ever manufactured. Its puri
ty and properties having been thus ascertaincd sam
pies of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners in
tie 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
tho article were unanimously favorable. Such q
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession, no reliance could be placed on the
orlinary liquors Of commerce, all of which were
more or less adulterated, and therefore unfit for
| medical purpose The peculiar ex ellence and
strength of the oi of juniper which formed one of
the principal ingredients of the schnapps together
with unalloyed character of the alcoholic elc-
ment, give it, in the estimation of the faculty. o
marked superiority over every other difusive stinu
liant as 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
schnapps, as one Of the guarantees Of Its genuine
nees. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent was obtained for the article, the
label was copyrighted, fac sine of the proprietor
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his name and that Of the preparation were en-
,ossed the bottles. aud the corks were scaled 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 trade mark in the United States District Court
for the Southern District of New York during that
year.
It might be supposed by persons unacquainied
with the diring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vend-
ing deleter trash under their name, that tho Fro
tcctions carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have precluded the introductons and sale OF
counterfeits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rlpacity of impostor'. The trade
mark of th proprietor has been stolen the indorse-
mont which his ;'chicdam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has bceu
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated his advertisements para
phrascd, his circulars copied and worse than all,
dslororable retailers, after dsposng of the genuine
contents Of his bottles, have filed them up with
common ein tho most dce;crious of all liquors. and
thus mado his name and brind cover for poison.
lie public. the medical profession and tho SICK
for when The Schicdam Arom tic Schnapps is pre-
scribed as remedy arc equally intercse with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression of those
nciarious practices The genuine article, manuac-
tured at tie establishment of tho ui'der igncd in
Schiedam, Holland. is distilled from barley of the
finest quality und Favored with m essential extract
OF the berry OF the Italian jueipe OF uncqualled pu
rity. BY process unknown in the preparation Of
any other liquor it is freed from every acrimonious
md corrosive element.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in the Southern States Of
the sale Of cheap limitations OF the Schiedam hro-
matte Schnlpps In those markets; and travellers,
who are in the habit OF using it as IN andote to the
bancfu influence of unwholcsome river water. tes
ify that cheap gin put up 10 Schiedam bottles, il
tr, qucntly pslmcd eff upon the unwary. The
ogents of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on the sbject and to forward to
him the names of such parties as they may asctr-
tain to be engaged In the atrocious system Of decep
ton. II conclusion the undersigned would say that
he has Produced from under the hands Of the most
distinguished men Of science in America, proofs un
auswcrable of tho purity and medicinal excel
lence OF the Schiedam Aromatic Schnalps that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur
rounding it with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should project the public and himself
against fraudulent limitations; that hc has shown it
to be the only liquor in the world that can be unl-
formly depended upon unadulteratcd; th:t lie has
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in oil Its forms; AMI from every ordeal
the preparation whi.h bears bis pame seal and trade
mark, has como off triumphant. BE, therefore, feels
i. duty he owes to his tellowctz ms generally, to
the medical profession and the sick, to deloancc
aud expose the charatins who counterfeit these evil
denotes OF identity and hc cllls upon the press and
the uhc TO aid him in his efforts to remedy so great
an evil.
The following letters and certificates from tho
leading physicians and che mist. Of this city will
prove to the rcldcr that all goods sold by the under
signe are all that they are repre- cnted to be.
uDOLPHO WOLFE.
feel bound to say. that regard your Selma pps
as being in every rcspcct pre-eminently pure, and
deserving OF medical patronage. at NIL events, it is
the prrcst possible article of Holland Gin. hereto
iore uuobtainablc, and such may be safely pre-
scribcd by physicians.
DAVID L. MOTT, NJ. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New YORK.
g tISE.sTREET NEW York,
November ~, 1867.
UDoLrHo WOLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear .Sir-l lave mlic . chemical examination OF
u sample Of your Schicdam Schnapps, with the in-
tent uf deierm ming If any foreign Or injurious sub
stance had been added 10 th, simple distilled spirits.
The examination has resulted III the conclusion
that the sample contained no posono IS or harmful
almixturc. | have unable to discover any.
trace OF the dcleierious substances witch are en-
ploycd in the alulteraiion of liquors. would not
hesitate to Use myself or 10 recommend to others,
for medicinal purposes The Schicda.n Schnapps as
au excellent and unobjectionable veriety Of gin.
Very respectfully yours,
lSicned) CHAS. a. SEELY, Chemist.
NEW YORK, No. SO CEDARsrREET. [
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