The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-18
Sfbienaur Sfbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDoLpHo WOLFE.


To the People Of the Southern States:
WHEN The PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now so widely known as WOLFE'S SCHIEDaM
sc 9NAPPS, was in reduced into the world under
the endorsement of four thousand Leading members
of the medical procession twenty years ago, Its
proprietor was well aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useu
preparations. He, therefore endeavored to invest II
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to disn.
cu,shed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured Its puri-
ty and properties having oeen thus sam.
pies of the article were forwarded to ton thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners iu
the 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 eaid, had long been wanted oS
the profession as no reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce. all of which were
more OF less adulterated, and therefore unfit for
meQlCll PURPOSES. IuO pCSUiAnh 90 ~A'eASS s~-N
strength of the oi OF juniper, which formed one OF
the principal ingredients Of the schnapps. together
with an unalloyed character Of the alcoholic ele'
ment, give it. in the estimation of the faculty,
marked supero-:ty over every other diusiVe stimu-
liant as diurelic. 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 ono OF the guarantP of its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted patent was obtained for the article. the
label copyrighted q JAG sniie OF The propr1oors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover, hls name and that of the preparation en-
tossed 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
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 unaequained
with the daring character of the pirasos who prey
upon the reputation OF othonorablc merchants by vend-
ing decterous trash der their name, that the Pro-
tectons so carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precluded the introductions and sale OF
counterfeits. They eeem, however, only TO have
stimulated the rapacity Of impostors. The trade
mark OF tn. proprietor has been stolcn the indorse
unent which his sahiedaln Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels md
bottles have been INFLATED. his advertisements para
,;r aI and fhpn nil
dishonorable reuiers after dsposng of the genuine
couteuts Of his bottles, have filed them up With
common ein the mos, dele.erious of all liquors. and
thus made his name and brInd cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the Schiedam aromatic 'Schnapps IS pre-.
scribed as remedy, are equally interested with The
proprietor in the detocon and suppression Of these
ncarious practices. The genuine article, manu'ac-
t,,red Mt tie establishment of the undersigned in
schiedlm, Holland, Is distilled from barley Of the
finest quality and favored with nh essential extract
Of tho berry of the Italian ju'ipe oil uncquaed pu'
rity. BY process unknown in the preparation OF
CIV other liquor it Is freed from every acrimonious
aud corrosive clcmcnt.
Complaints have been received from the leading
1hysicans and families in the southern states OF
tl- sale OF cheap limitations OF tho Schiedan Aro-
,,,sbc Schnapps In thoso markets; and travellers,
~ t,s kahit ni unins Il .IAA ~ se
banciu influence Of unwholcsonc river water, tes-
tify tina: cheap gn put up in Schiedam bottles is
frequently palmed of upon the unwary. The
agents o. the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries ON the beet, an1 to forward to
him the ramcs of such parties as they may ascrr-
tain to be engaged in the Gtrocious system OF dercp
t,on. In conclusion. the undersigned would say that
hc mas produced from uuder tho hands of tho most
distnguls heu men cf science in America. proofs un
answerabIe OF the purity and medicinal excel
lence OF the Schicdam Aromatic Schnapps; that
liza has expended many thousand dollars in Sur.
rounding it with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should project the public and himself
anninst fraudulent limitations; THAI he has shown It
to DO the only liquor In the world that can be UNI
formly depended upon unaduteratcd; that he hos
challenged investigation. analysis, comparison and
experiment in allits iorms; and from every ordeal
the preparation viii bears his name, seal and irade
mark, has come of triumphant he, therefore, feels
IL duty he owes to Ills telowcitz ms generally, to
the medical profession and the SICK, to denounce
and exposs the cnarlatans who counterfeit these evil
denotes OF identity and he calls upon the press and
tho public to aid him in his efforts toremedy 80 great
an OWL
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physlc,ans and chemists Of this city will
proye to the reader that all goods sold by the under
signe are all that they are repre- ented to be.
UDoLPHo WOLFE.