The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-24
TO the People of the Southern States:


NEW YoRK, November 8. 1868.
TO the People of the Southern States:
WHEN The PURE MEDICiN Il RESTORATIVE,
now so widely known as wOLFE'S sCHIEDAN1
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 it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations He, therefore, endearorcd 10 invest
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters, and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to dstin.
guighed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them The purest spirit ever manufactured. It's puri-
y and properties having been thus ascertaned SAM
pies of the article forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners in
tue United States, for purposes of experiment. A
circular requesting trial Of the preparation and
report of the result accompanied each specimen.
Four thousand OF the most eminent medical mcn in
the Union promptly responded. Their opinions OF
the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation they said, had long been wanted by
the profession as no reliance could be placed the
ordinary liquors of commerce, all of which we're
moro or less adulterated. and therefore unfit for
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength of the OF of juniper, which formed one OF
the principal ingredients Of the Schnapps together
with an unalloyed character of the alcoholic ee-
ment. give it. in the estimation OF the faculty,
marked superiority over every other dusive stimu-
liant as diurelic tonic and restorative
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank we're published in con-
densed form, and enclosed with each bottle of the
Schnapps as one of the guarantees Of its genuine
ncss. Other precautions against fraud wcre also
adopted patent was obtained for the article the
label was copyrighted fac smte of the proprieor's
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his name aud that of the preparation were en-
Lossed on the bottles and the corks 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 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 una:quain'ed
with the ring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation o:honorable merchants by vcnd-
;nr deIec GUS trash under their name that the pro-
tections so carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have prccudcd the introductions and sale Of
countcrfeits They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostor'. The trade
mark OF th proprietor has been stolen; the ndorse
ment which his Schedam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mcndacious humbuss; his labels and
bottles have been initiated his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than ALL
dishonorbo retailers after disposing of The genuine
contents of his bottles, have filled them up with
common Gin, the most dclcorous of Ell liquors and
thus made his name ana br md cover for poison.
The public the medical profession and tho sick,
for whom the Schicdam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scribcd as remedy, are equally ineres!c with the
prorrctor in the detection and suppression OF those
ncarious practices. The genuine article, niaaulac.
tured at the establishment OF the undersigned III
Schedam, Holland, is distilled from barley Of The
finest quality and favored. with an essential extract
of the berry Of the Italian juripe OF uncquacd pu
rity. By process unknown in the preparation of
any other liquor it is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive clement.
Complaints have been received from flo leading
physicians and families in the Southern states OF
the sale Of cheap limitations Of the Schiedam Aro-
matte Schnapps in those markets; and travellers,
WHO are in the habit OF using it aniidoe TO the
bancful influence of unwolcsomc river wafer ties.
ify thai cheap gin, put up in Schicdan bottles. is
frequently palmed OF upon the unwary. The
aeouts Of the undersigned have been requested 10
institute inquiries on the subject, anl TO forward to
him the names Of such parties as they may asc.r-
tain to be engaged in the atroious aystcm of dcccp-
ton. In conclusion. The undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under the hands Of the most
distinguished mon Of science in America proofs un
answerable of the purity and medicinal excel
lence Of the Schiedam Aromatic Schnarps thht
he has expended many thousand dollars in SIR.
rounding it with guarantees and safeguards which
he designed should project the public and himself
against fraudulent imitations that nc has shown it
to be the only liquor in the world that can be uni
formly depended upon unadulteratcd; that lie has
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in all Its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation viii Il bears his Dame, seal and trade
mark has come of triumphant He, therefore. feels
the medical profession and the sick, to denoance
aud expose tho charlatans who counterfeit these cyi
denotes Of identity and he calls upon the press and
the blic to aid him in his efforts 10 remedy SO great
an owl.
The following letters aud certificates from tho
leading physicians and che MIST of this city will
prove to the reader that a goods sold by the under
signcl ] arc all that they are repro ented to be.
uD0LpHO WOLFE.