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Sfbitsam sfbaapps.
OFFICE Or UDoLpHo WOLFE. !
Sole Lnpo, ter of the Sctieddn Aromatic Schnapps,
No 90 Benver-street.
NEW YORK November 5. 1862.


Sole Inpo, ter of the Schiedan Aromatic Schnapps,
No 90 Benver-street.
New YORK, November g. 1862.
| To the People of the Southern Statcst
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINA Al RESTORATIVE.
now 80 widely known as wOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
| SCHNAPPS, was in PRODUCED 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
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters and to render oil attempts to pirate 1t diff
cult and dangerous 1t was submitted to distin-
guished chemists for analysis, AMI pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured. Its puri-
ty and properties having been thus ascertained SAM
pies of the article wer, forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners in
tue 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 Upien promptly responded. Their opinions OF
the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession no reliance 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 oi of juniper. which formed one OF
the principal ingredients of the Schnapps, together
with an unalloyed character Of the alcoholic ee-
r,ent, give it. in the estimation of the faculty.
marked superiority every other diusiTe stimu-
liant as diure;ic, tonic and restorative
These satisfactory credentials from professional
mon of the highest rank were published in con-
densed form, and enclosed with each bottle of the
Schnapps. as Of the guarantees OF Its genuine
ness Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent was obtained for the article. the
label copyrighted fac sntiie of the proprieors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his name aud that Of the preparation were en-
tossed the bottles aud the corke were scaled with
his private seal. No article had ever been sold in
this country under the name Of Schnapps prior to
the introduction of Wolfes Schiedam Aromah;
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.
1t might be supposed by persons una"quained
with the dIring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vcnd-
ing deleerous trash under their name that the Fro
tections so carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precluded the introductions and sole OF
counterfeits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors. The trade
mark OF th proprietor has been stolen; the indorsc-
ment which his Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacous humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated. his advertisements para
shaw all
dshonorablc retailers after disposing 1.-THE genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most deleerious of all liquors. and
thus made his name and br md cover for poison.
Tho public the medical profession and the sick
for whom The Schiedam Aromatic schnapps Is pre-
scribed as a remedy are equally intcres:e with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression of these
netarious practices. The genuine article, manuac-
turcd at the establishment of the undersigned in
Schicdam Holland, is distilled from barley OF the
finest quality and favored with on essential extract
of the berry Of the Italian juripc of uncquallcd pu
rity BY process unknown in the preparation or
any other liquor it is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive clement.
Complaints have been received from the lending
physicians and families in the Southern States OF
the sale of cheap limitations of the Schiedam Aro-
matte schn1pps in those markets; und travellers,
who arc In the habi: OF using it Andote to the
baneful influence of unwholcsome river water. tes-
tify that cheap gin put up In Schiedam bottles is
frequently palmed OF 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 asc,r-
tain to be engaged in the atrocious system OF deccp
tion In conclusion the undersigned would say that
he has prod uced from under the hands of the most
distinguished men OF science in America, proofs un
answerable of the purity and medicinal excel
lence OF the Schicdam Aromatic Schnapps; that
ho has expended many thousand dollars In SUR
rounding it with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should project the pubic and himself
against fraudulent limitations; 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 Its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation whi bears his name seal and trade
mark, has como of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
it duty he owes to lis iellow-citiz,ns generally, to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charlatans who counterfeit these evil
denotes of identity. and he calls upon tho press and
the publc to aid him in his efforts to remedy so great
an evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians and che nst4 of this city will
prove to the render that all goods sold by the under
sgncl are all that they are repre- ented to be.
UDoLPHO WOLFE.
Ifcel bound to say, that l regard your Schnapps
as being in every respect pre-smnently pure, and
deserving OF medical patronage. At all events, 1t ls
the purest possible article of Holland Gin, hereto
fore uuobtaiuable anu as such may be safely pre-
scribed By physicians.
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York.
2G r1NE-srREET, New York,
November II, 1867.
UDoLrHo WOLFE Esq, Present:
Dear Sir have MALE chemical examination Of
q sample of your Schiedam Schnapps, with the ln-
tent uf determining If any foreign or injurious sun
stance had been added 10 the simple distilled spirits
The examination has resulted III the conclusion
that the sample contained no opolsonojs or harmful
admixturo | have teen unable to discover any
trace Of the deletorious substances wich are EN-.
ployed in the adulteraton Of liquors. L would not
hesitate to use myself or to recommtn nd to others,
tor medicinal purposes, the Schiedam Schnapps as
an excellent and unobjectionablc variety OF gin.
Very respectfully yours,
tsiened,l CHAS A. SEELY, Chemist.
New YonK No. So CEDAR-sTREET.
November 26, 1867 !
UDoLpHo WOLFE, ESQ., Present:
Dear Sir! have submitted to chemical ana,'si
Two bottles OF "Schicdam Schuapps," which took