The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-12-16
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When the, pure medicinal restorative 7
nows 50 widely known as WOLFEb SCHIE-
DAM sCHMkPPs, mas INTRODUCED into the
world, under The endorsement OF 600
leading members Of the medical ,t p,rtofes.
/ sion, some twenty years ago, it's proprie..
tor was well aware that it copld not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and
useful preparations. He, therefore, en-
deavored to invest it with the strongest
possible safeguard against counterfeiters,
+ and to render all attempts to pirate it dif-
ficult and dangerous. It was submitted
to distinguished chemists for analysis, and
4or onounced by them tho purest ar:-:. ever
manufactured. It's purity and properties
having been thus ascertained, samples of
the article wore forwarded to 10, 900 physi.
clans, including all the leading practition-
ers in the United States, for purposes of
experiment. A circular, requesting 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 tho article were unanimously favorable.
Such preparation, they said, had long
been wanted by the profession, as no reli-
ance could be placed on the ordinary
liquors Of commerce; all of which were
more 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 the 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 q diuretic,
tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from pro-
fessional men Of tho highest rank wero
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,
a fac simile of the proprietor's autograph
signature was attached to each label and
cover, his name and that Of the prepare
tion were embossed on the bottles, and tho
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 be supposed, by persons unac-
qnainted with the daring character of the
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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 counterfeits.
They seem, however, only to have stimu-
mark of the proprietor has been stolen:
the endorsement which his Schedam
Aromatic Schnapps alone received from
the medical profession has been claimed
by mcndacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated, his advertise
ments paraphrased, his circulars copied,
and, worse than all, dishonorable retailers.
after disposing OF the genuine contents of
his bottles, have filled them up with COM
mon gin, tho most deleterious of all
liquors. and thus made his name and
brand cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and
the sick, for whom the Schicdam Aromatic
Schnapps is prescribed as remedy, arc
equally interested with the proprietor in
farious practices. The genuine article,
manufactured at the establishment of the
undersigned, in Schiedam, Holland, is dis
titled from O barley Of the finest quality,
and favored with an essential extract Of
the berry of the Italian juniper, of une-
qualled purity. BY process unknown in
the preparation Of any other liquor, it is
freed from every acrimonious and corro-
sive element.
Complaints have been received from the
leading physicians and families in the
Southe ern States. OF the sale of cheap imi-
tations of the Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps in those markets.; and travellers.
who are in the habit of using it as an anti,
dote to the baneful influence of unwhole-
some river water, testify that cheap gin,
put up in Schiedam bottles, is frequently
palmed off upon the unwary. The agents
of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on the subject, and to
forward to him the names of such parties
as they may ascertain to be engaged in
the atrocious system Of deception. Ir
conclusion, the undersigned would say
that he has produced. from under the
hands Of the most distinguished men of
science in America, proofs unanswerable
of the purity and medicinal excellence of
the Schiedam Aromatic Scbnapps; that he
has expended many thousand dollars in
surrounding it with guarantees and safe
guards, which he designed should protect
the public and himself against fraudulent
limitations; that he has shown it to be the
only liquor in the world that can be uni.
fOrmly dependcd uDOn as unadultera tod.