The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-15

Sole inpo' ter " the Sctieddht AroWatlc oc'H.dlP"'
No c.3 Beaycr-strcct.
New YORK, November g. 1S68
To the People of the Southern States:
WHEN The PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now 80 widely known as WOLFE's sCHIEDAM
sCYNAPPS, vas in reduced into the world under
the endorsement of four thousand leading members
OF the medical profession some twenty years ago. lts
proprietor was well aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and use'u
preparations. He, therefore, endeavored TO inVesth
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters and to render all attempts to pirate it dl'
cult and dangerous. 1t was submitted TO d'stin-
gu:shed chemists for analysis, and pronounced oy
them the pures spirit ever manufactured It's pur1-
ty and properties having peen thus ascertaincd, sam
Piles of the article forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners in
tue United States, for purposes of experiment
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. Sucn
preparation, they said, had long been wanted oy
the profession reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce, all OF which were
more or less adulterated, apa therefore unit 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 uraIloyed character of tho alcoholic ole
mens. give it. in the estimation OF the faculty,
marked superlo-ty every other difusiVe stimu-
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 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 copyrighted o 'dc smiie OF the proprleors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover hls name aud thct Of the preparation were en-
Lossed on Inc bottles and the corkB were scaled with
his private SEAL No article had over 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 unacquan'ed
with the dlrng character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vend-
ing deleterous trash under their name that the pro-
tectons 30 carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precludcd the Dtroductions and sale OF
counterfeits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity Of impostors. The trade
mark OF tn, proprietor has been stolen; the indorso-
ment which his Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious huinbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated. his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than oil,
dishonorablc retailers, after disposng of the genuine
coutcnts of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most dceterious of all liquors, aud
thus made his rame and br,nd j cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and The sick,
for whom the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is pre-
scribed as remedy arc equally interestoj with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression of these
nearous practices The genuine article, manu!ac-
t,lretl at tie establishment of the undersigned in
schicd,ln, Holland, ,s distilled FROM barley of the
finest quality and favored with essential extract
OF the berg o! the italian juppe of uncquaed pu-
rity. Fly process unknown in the preparation OF
any other liquor it is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive clement.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in the Southern States OF
the sale Of cheap limitations OF the Schiedam Aro-
matte schnapps in tLose markets; and travellers,
who are in the habit OF using 1t Is an antdote to the
bancful influence Of unwholesome river water. tes-
tify that cheap gin, put up in SchiedaIn botles Is
frequently pallncd OIL upon the unwary. The
u.crt- OF unuri 5n-d litro- occn requested 10
institute inquiries on the subject and to forward to
him the names of such parties as they may aSctr-
tain to be engaged in the atrocious system Of derep
ton III conclusion the undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under The hands of the most
distneuished men OF science in America, proofs un
aoswerable OF the purity and medicinal excel.
lence IT the Schiedam Aromatic Schrarps that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur
rounding it with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should protect the public aud himself
agn!nst fraudulent imitatons; thai he has shown 1t
10 5e the only liquor in tho wcrld that Gun he uui-
formly depended upon unadultrrated; that he has
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment IN all lis forms; anu from every ordeal
the preparation viii. bears his Damc seal and trado
mark has come of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
il duty he owes to his iellow-citiZrns generally, to
tho ued.cal profession and the sick, to deuouncc
aud expose the charlatans who counterfeit these evil
denotes of identity. and he calls upon the press and
the ullc to aid hiu in his efforts to remedy so great
au evil.
Tho following letters and certificates from the
lLading physicians and chemists OF this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by tue under
signe are all that they arc repre- cnted to be.
UDoLPHo WOLFE.
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