The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-30
Sftifbam Sfbnapps.
oFtICE OF UDOLPHO WOLFE,


No 22 Benvcr-strcct.
New YORK, November !. 1868. J
To the People of the Southern States:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now SO widely known as WoLFE'S scHlEDAM
sCANAPPS, was in reduced into tbe~orld under
the endorsement of four thousand leading members
Of the medical profession some twenty years ago. Its
proprietor was we'll aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations. He therefore, endeavored to invest IL
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters and to render all attempts to pirate it dii-
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to d'stin-
euisl,ed chemists for analysis, and pronounced BY
them the pures spirit ever manufactured. lts 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
the United States, for purposes OF experiment. A
circular, requesting trial of the preparation ana
report of the result, accompanied each specimen
Four thousand of the most eminent medical men In
the Union promptly responded. Their opioions OF
the article were unanimously favorable. Such q
preparation, they said, had long been Wanteo ny
the profession as reliance could be placed on tne
ordinary liquors Of commerce, oil OF winch were
more or less adulterated, and therefore unnt 1or
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence ano
strength of the OF of juniper, which formed one oi
the principal ingredients Of the schnapps tosesner
with an unaloyed character of the alcoholic ele.
mept give It, In the estimation of the faculty,
marked superiority every other ditusive sumu'
liant as diuretic, tonic and restorative
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank were published in con-
densed form, and enclosed with each botue Oh tne
Schnapps rs one of the guarantees of Its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud were liso
adopted; patent was obtained for the article the
label was copyrighted ac simfie OF The prop1leors
autograph signature was attached to each label ana
cover hs name aud that of the preparation were en-
bossed on the bottles and the corks were sealed 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
schnupps, in 1851; and tho 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"quain'ed
with the dlring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation othonorablc merchants by vend-
ing delcerous trash under their name, that the pro-
tections 80 carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precluded the introductoDs and sale OF
countcrfcits. They seem, however only to nave
stimulated the rapacity of impostor'. The trade
mark of tn, proprietor has been stolen the ndorse
ment which his schicdam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has boon
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated, his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than oil,
dshonorable retailers after disposing of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common eip the most dele;erious of al liquors, and
thus madc his name and brlnd co7er FOR poison.
Tho public the medical profession and the sick.
for whom The Schelam Aromatic Schnapps is pre-
scrbed as remedy, are equally iD.crcs:c with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression of these
netarious practices. The genuine article, maau'ac-
turcd q. tie establishment of the undersigned in
Schcdaln Holland, is distilled from barley Of The
finest quality, and favored with essential extract
Of the berry Of the Itaan uripe, of uncquallcd pu
riy. BY process unknown in the preparation OF
any other liquor it Is freed from every acrimonious
aud corrosive element.
Complaints lave been received from the leading
physicians and families In the Southern States OF
the sale of cheap limitations OF tho schiedam Aro-
maHc Schnlpps in those markets; and Travellers
who are in the habit OF using it as IN andote to the
tify that cheap gin, put up in Schicdam 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 ascrr-
tain to be engaged in the atrocous system of decep
tion In conclusion, Tho undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under the hands of the most
distngui. he'd men of science in America, proofs un
answcrablc of the purity and medicinal excel.
lcnce OF ihe Schcdam Aromatic Schnarps that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur.
rounding ii with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should protect the public and himself
against fraudulent imitations; that he has shown it
10 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 it's forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation viii bears mis- name, seal and trade
mark has come Of triumphant He, therefore, feels
it duty he owes to his ie.low-citz ms generally, to
the medical profession and the sick, to dcnounco
and expose the charatans who counterfeit these evil
denotes OF identity and he calls upon the press and
the uhlic to aid him in his efforts to remedy great
an evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians and che nists of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under
signe are all that they are repre- ented 10 be.
UDoLPHo WOLFE.
tnooI IN ,nt T cbOo ,nS