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Sfhirhaul Slhnapps.
OFFICE OF UDoLPHO WOLFE. !
Sole Impo, ter of the Setieda Aromatic Schndpps,
No 20 Beaver-strect.
Nrv yopR November g. 1853

Sole Impo' ter Of the Sehiedam Aromatic Schndpps,
No 90 Beaver-strect.
New YORK, November 8. 1868.
To the People of the Southern Stntes'
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now so widely known as WOLFES SCHlEDAM
SCHNAPPS, was in reduced into the world under
the endorsement of four thousand leading members
OF tho medical profession some twenty years ago. its
proprietor was we'll aware that 1t could not wholly
escape tho penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations He, therefore, endcavored to invest ii
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters and to ronder all attempts to pirate 1t dif-
cult and dangerous. 1t was submitted TO dstin'
eu,shed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them The pures spirit manufactured. Its puri-
ty and properties having been thus ascertained, sam
ples 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 CT the preparation and
report OF the result, accompanied each specimen.
Four thousand of the most eminent medical men in
the Union promptly responded. Their opinions OF
the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession az no reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce. all of which wero
more or less adulterated. and therefore unfit for
medicn 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 clc-
ment give it. in the estimation of the faculty,
marked superiority over every other dfusive stimu-
liant as diure:ic, tonic and restorative
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank were published in con-
dcnscd form, and enclosed with eacl bottle of the
Schnlpps as one of the guarantees of Its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted patent was obtained for the article, the
label was copyrighted, ac simite of the proprieors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover lis and that of the preparation were en-
sosscd the bottles. and the corks were sealed with
bi. private seal. No article had ever been sold in
this country under the namo of Schnapps prior to
the introduction of Wolfe's 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.
It might be supposed by persons unacquainied
with The d ring character of the pira.es who prey
upon the reputation orhonorable merchants by vcnd-
ing deleter trash under their name, that the Pro-
tcctons carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precluded the introducious and sale OF
countcricils 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 schicdam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by meniacious hunbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated. his advertisements para
,,tr oil al md
dishonorabe retailers, after dsposinG the genuine
contents of his bottles, have Il led them Up with
common ein the most ec:erious of Ill liquors, and
thus madc his name and br nd cover for poison.
The public. the medical profession and The sick,
for whom the Schielam Arom tic Schrapps is pre-
scribcd as remedy, are equally interes;e with the
proprietor in the dcec and suppression OF these
neiarious practices. The genuine article, m1nuiac-
tured at tie establishment Of the undersigned in
Schicdanl, HoLnd, is distilled fro barley OF The
finest quslity, aud favored with an essential extract
OF the berry Of The Italian ipc of uncqualled pu-
rity. BY 4 process unknown in the preparation OF
any other liquor it Is ircel from every acrimonious
and corrosive clement.
Complaints have been received from the loading
physicians and families in the Southern States Of
th, sale of cheap mutations of the Schiedam Aro-
matte scDn ;pps in those markc.s; and travellers,
who are in the habit OF using it as an andoie to the
banefuI influence of unwllolesome rivor water. tcs-
tiiy that cheap gin put up in Schicdam bottles, is
tr, aucntly palned oG upon tho unNary. The
agents of the undersigned have bccn requested TO
institute inquiries tha srbjce AMI to forward to
him tho names Of such parties as they may asc,r-
tain to be engaged in the atrocious system OF decep-
tion Iu conclusion The undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under tho hands Of the most
distinguished men OF science in America, proofs un
suswcrab!e of tho purity and medicinal excel
lence of tho Schielam Aromatic SchnaTps tEat
he has expended m1ny thousand dollars in sur
rounding it with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should project the public and himeeli
against fraudulent limitations; tha. he has shown 1t
TO be The enly liquor in the world that can be uni
formly depended upon uuadulteratcd; that 10 hos
challenged investigation. analysis, comparison and
experiment in oil its forms; and from every ordcll
the preparation whi bears his pame seal and trade
M .rI has como Of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
il duty he owes to ]is tellow-citiz-ns generally to
tho medical profession and the SICK to denoance
and expose the charlatIns who counterfeit these evil
denotes of identity, and he calls upon the pross and
the ublic to aid him in his efforts to remedy so great
an evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians and che nst' of this city will
prove to tho render that all goods sold by tue under
signc are all that thcy are repre- onted to be.
UDoLPHo WOLFE
Iiro bound to say, thit regard your Schna9Ts
as bcug in every respect pre.aminenily pure, ana
deserving OF medical patronage At all events, u Is
The purest possible article OF Holland Gin. hereto
tore unobtainable aud as such my be safely pre-
DAVID L. MOTT, NJ. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York.
&c r1SE-sTEEET, NEW York,
November u. 1857.
UpoLPHo WOLFE, Esq, PrrccRt:
Dear Sir-Ihay ma'le . chemical cxlminatoh oI
q sample If your Schlcdam achnapps, WIN me ln-
tent Of determining If any foreign orinlurious stn-
stance bad been added TO the simple distilled srts
The examination has resulted IN the conclusion
that the sample contained no poisono IS OF hsrullui
aduixture l have peen unable TO discover any
trace oil the dclclerious substances wien are en-.
ployed in the adultcraion of liquors. would not
hesitate to use myself to recomln' MI 10 othcrs,
for medicinal purposes, the Schcdam HcHnapps Us
al exctllolt and unobjectionable variety OF gin.
Very respectfully yourt,
tSiSned1 CHAS. a. SEtLi' Cheu's
NEW YonK, No. SO CEDAR-srREET:
Nnyomier 9G 1867 {