The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-12-18
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22 BEAVER sTBRETs NEW YonRs Noy. 81 Esq.,
10 the People Of the Southerr, 6sqtes.
"a When the pure medicinal restorative
now 50 widely known as WoLFE'S sCHIE-
DAMs0HNAPPs, was introduced into the
world, under the endorsements OF 1000
leading members of the me1 1ical profess
sion, some twenty years ago, it's proprie-
tor was well aware that it could 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 diff
hoult and dangerous. 1t was submitted
to distinguished chemists .or analysis, aud
pronounced by them tho purest spirit ever
manufactured. It's purity and properties
having been thus ascertained, samples of
the article were 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. 4 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
oecn 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,
unit 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 tho estimation of the
faculty, marked superiority over every
other diffusiye stimulant as n d1uretic.
tonic and restorative
These satisfactory credentials from pro-
fessional men of tho highest rank were
puDnshed In condensed form, and en-
closed with each bottle of the Schnapps,
as one or the guarantees of its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; a patent was obtained
for the article, the label was copyrighted,
6. fac sinile of the proprietor's autograph
signature was attached to each label and
cover, his name and that Of the prepara-
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 Woife'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.
IL might De supposed, by persons unac-
pirates who prey upon the reputation of
honorable merchants, by vending delete
rlous trash under their name, that the
projections so carefully thrown around
these Schnapps would have precluded the
introductions and sale of counterfeits.
,1t- 30 L.,
lated the rapacity of 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 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, the 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 Schiodam Aromatic
Schnapps is prescribed as remedy, are
equally interested with the proprietor in
the detection and suppression of these ne
farious practices, The genuine article,
undersigned, in Schiedam, Holland, is dis
titled from a 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 aud corro-
sive clement.
Complaints have been received from the
leading physicians and families in the
South ern States, of the sale of cheap imi-
tations Of the Sehiedam Aromatic
Schnapps in those markets; and travellers.
who are in the habit of using it as an anti
doto to the baneful influence of unwhole-
some river water, testify that cheap gin.
put up in Schiedam bottles, is frequently
palmed off upon the uuwarv. The agents
OF the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on tho subject, and to
forward to him the names of such parties
as they may ascertain to be engaged in
conclusion, the undersigned would say
that he has produced, from under tho
hands of the most distinguished men of
science in America, proofs unanswerable
of the purity and medicinal excellence of
tho Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps; 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
imitations; that he has shown it to be the
only liquor in the world that can be uni
formly depended upon as unadulterated: {:
that he has challenged investigation,
analysis, comparison, and experiment in
all it's forms; and from every ordeal tho
preparation which bears his name, seal
and trade mark, has como off triumphant
He, therefore, feels it duty he owes to his
fellow-citizens generally, to tho medical
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