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Sebieaam Sebnapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLpHO WOLFE,
Sole Impo' ter Of the Schied1m Aromatic Schn0pps,
No az Bcaver-street.

No 22 Bcaver-street.
NEW YORK. November 3. 1868.
To the People of tho Southern states,
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now so widely known WOLFE'S sCHIEDAM
sCHNAPPS, was Introduced into the world under
tho endorsement Of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession twenty years ago. its
proprietor was well aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and usefu,
preparations He, therefore, endeavored to invest II
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feters, and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cuic and dangerous. Il was submitted to distin.
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured Its puri-
ty and properties having been thus rtained 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 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, as reliance could be placed on tho
ordinary liquors of commerce, all of which were
more or less adulterated, and therefore unfit for
medical purposes. The peculiar ex, ellence and
strcngth OF the Of of juniper, which formed one of
the principal ingredients Of the schnapps together
WIN an unalloyed character Of the alcoholic Gle
ment, give It, in the estimation Of the faculty,
marked superiority over every other diusive stmu-
liant as diure'ic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men OF the highest rank were published in con-
densed form. and enclosed with each bottle of the
schnapps 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 fac sme of the proprie! ors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover, his 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 Wolfes 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.
1t might be supposed by persons unacquainied
With the daring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vend
ing deetcrous traah under their nae, that the pro-
tectons so carefully thrown around those Schnapps
would have prccludcd the inroductions and sale Of
counterfcits. They seem, however only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors. The trade
mark of tn, proprietor has been stolen the ndo
mens which his Sohiedam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than oil,
dishonorable retailers after disposing of the genuine
cootents of his bottles, have filed them UP with
common gin, tho most deeterious Of all liquors. and
thus made his name and br md cover for poison,
The public, the medical protest. and the sick
for whom the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is pre-
Scrihed q n ;,,to
proprietor in the detection and suppression of these
notarious practices The genuine article, manuac-
tured at the establishment of the undersigned in
Schiedam, Holland, is distilled from barley of the
finest quality, and favored with an essential extract
OF the berry OF the italian urpe~ Of uncqualed pu
rity. BY process unknown in the preparation Of
any other liquor. 1t Us freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive element.
Complaints have been received from the loading
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 an sntdote to the
baneful influence Of unwholesome river water tcs-
tify that cheap gn put up In Schiedam bottles, is
frequently palmed OH 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 suoh parties as they may asccr-
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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 6chiedam Aromatic Schnarps that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur.
rounding 1t with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should protect the public aud himself
against fraudulent imitations that ne has shown 1t
to be the only liquor in the world that be uni.
formly depended upon adulterated; that lie 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 come off triumphant He, therefore feels
1t duty he owes to lis telow-citizans generally to
the medical profession and the SICK to denounce
and expose the charatans who counterfeit these eyi
denotes Of identity and he calls upon the press and
the public to aid him in his efforts to remedy go 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 hy the under
signe1 are all that they are repre- ented to be-
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
feel bound to say, that regard your Selma ,ps
as being in every respect pre.eminenty pure and
deserving OF medical patronage At all events it is
the purest possible article of Holland Gin hereto.
tore unoUtainable. and suoh may be safely ,,re-
scribed by pbysicians.
DAVID L. MOTT, Nj.
Pharmaceutical Chemist New York
20 pISE-srREEr, New YoRK.,
November 21, 1867.
UDoLpHo WOLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear Sir--I have made chemical ex animation of
sample of your sohledam schnnpps, with the in
tent Of determining If any foreign or injurious sub
stance had been added to the simple distilled spirits
The examination has resulted in the conclusion
that the sample contained no poisonous or harmful
admixtare. l have beSn unable to discover any
trace oil the deleterious substances wich are am.
ployed in the adulteration Of liquors. would not
besitate to use myself or to recommt nd to othersS
tor medicinal purposes the schiedam sohnapps as
an excellent and unobjectonable variety of gin
Very respectfully yours,
(Sfgned0 SHAS. A. SEELY. Chemist.
NEW YonK, No. SO CEDAR-srREnr.,
NOv6naDer 20, 1857
UDoLPHo WoLFB, Esq, Present
Dear Sir have submitted TO chemical analysis
two bottles OF ''schedaM Schnapps," wbich took
from fresh package in your bonned warehouse, ana
find. as before, that the spirituous liquor is Tree