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SshisSam Ssbmapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLPHO WOLrf
Sole Inapoit,r Qfthe HchieddM Ar0ndtic .SchndppS
No 23 Hcavcr-strcct. {
NEW York, November 3. 1868. |


No 22 Dcavcr-st"cct.
NEW YORK, November 3. 1863.
To tho People OF the Southern States.
WHENTHE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now so widely known as WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
SC9NAPPS in reduced into the world under
the endorsement of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession twenty years ago. it's
proprietor was well aware that 1t could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all and usctu
preparations He, therefore. endeavorod invest ii
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
letters, and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous 1t submitted to dstin-
eulshed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit manufactured. Its puri-
ty and properties having thus ascertancd sam
pies OF the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including ell the leading practitioners in
the United States, for purposes of experiment. A
circular, requesting trial of tho 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 q
preparation they said, had long been wanted by
the profession, as no reliance could be placed the
ordinary liquors Of commerce, all of which were
more or less adulterated3 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 tho alcoholic ele-
ment give 1t. in the estimation of the faculty, a
| marked superiority every other dfusire stmu-
liant as d1uretic. tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men Of the highest rank published in con-
densed form, and enclosed with each bottle of the
Schnapps, as of the guarantees Of its genuine
ness Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent was obtained for the article the
iaoei was copyrighted of the propretors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover, his name and that Of the preparation were en-
Tossed on the bottles and the corls were sealed with
his private seal. No article had been sold in
this country under the name OF Schnapps prior to
the introduction of Wolfes Schieda1n Aromatic
Schnapps, in 1851; and the label 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 unacquainted
with the daring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation othonorable merchants by
Ing deleterous trash under their name that the pro-
tectons so carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precluded the introduchons and sae of
counterfeits, They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity Of ,mpostors. The trade
mark OF the proprietor ha been stolen the indorse-
mcnt which his Schicdam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbugs; bis labels and
bottles have been inflated, his advertisements para
phrased his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dishonorable retailers after dsposing of the genuine
contents Of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the mos; dcleterious of all liquors. aud
thus made his name and br md cover for poison.
The public the medical proie ssion and the sick
for whom the schiedam Aromatic Schpapps is pre-
scr'bed as remedy are equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression of these
netarlous practices. Tho genuine article manuac-
tured at tte establishment of the undersigned in
sch1edam, Holland, is distilled from barley of the
finest quality, aud favored with an essential extract
of the berry of the italian ju per of uncquaed pu-
rity. BY process unknown in the preparation of
any other liquor. it freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive element. &
Complaints have been received the leading
physicians and families in the Southern States of
the sale of cheap limitations of the Schedam Aro-
matte schnapps in those markets; and travellers
who in the habit OF using an antidoe to the
bancful influence Of unwholesome river water tes-
tify that cheap gin, put up in Schiedam bottles is
frequently palmed of upon the unwary. The
agents OF the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries the subject, to forward to
him the names of such parties as they may asc,r-
tain to be engaged in the atrocious system of decep
ton. In conclusion. thetIndersignod would say that
he has produced, from under the hands of the most
distinguished men of science in America, proofs un
answerable OF the purity and medicinal excel
lcnce OF the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur
rounding 1t with guarantees and safeguards which
he designed should project the public and himself
against fraudulent limitations; that ne has shown it
TO Dc the only liquor.ln the world that can be uni
fcrmy depended upon as unadulterated; that lie has
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in all Its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation whi bears his name and trade
mark, has come of triumphant. He, therefore feels
it duty he owes to ns fellow citizens generally to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charatans who counterfeit these evil
denotes of identity, and ne calls upon the press and
the ublc to aid him in his efforts to remedy so great
an evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicans and che nists of this city will
to the reader that all goods sold by the under
signed are oil that they are repre- ented to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE
Ifeel bound to soy, that regard your Selma obs
as beng in every respect pre-eminently pure and
the purest possible article of Holland Gin, hereto
tore unobtainaole. and as such may be safely pr
DAVID L. MOTT. M D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York
26 FrNE-sTREET, NEW YORK;
November 21, 1867.
UDoLPHo WOLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear &r-I have made a chemical examination of
sample of your schledam Schnapps, with the in
tent Ut determining If any foreign injurious sub
stance bad been added to the simple distilled spirits
The examination has resulted In the conclusion
that the sample contained no poisonous or harmful
admtxture. I have pe.n unable to discover any
trace OF the deleterious substances wich are en-.
ployed In the adulter4,ion Of liquors. would not
hesitate to use myself or to recomme nd to Others
nm excellent and unohjectonable variety Of gin.
Very respectfully yours,
(SignedO . OHAS. A. SEELY, Chemist
NEW YoRK, No. SO CEDAR-srREEr
NoyenDer 26, 1867
UDoLpHo WOLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear Str! have submitted to chemical analysis
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