The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-02-25
Office Of Udolph0 Wolfe,
SOLE IMPORTER OF THE
Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps,
q BEAVER STREET, NEW YORK,
NOVEMBER 8, 1868.
1I IL, D,onI, of tLo Coutbern St1tes
To the People of the Southern States

10 the Peopte OF Me Ooutnerh OtdteS
When the pure mcdcina! restorative, now SO
widely known as Woltc's Schedam Schnapps was
introduced into the orld under the endorsement OF
four thousand leading members Of the medical
profession some 20 years ago, its proprietor was
we'll aware that it could not wholly escape the
penalty attached to all new and useful prepara-
tions He, therefore, endeavored to invest it with
strongest possible safeguard against counterfeiters,
and to render all attempts TO pirate it difficult and
dangerous 1t was submitted to distinguished
chemists for analysis and pronounced by them the
unrest spirit ever manufactured Its purity aud
properties having been thus ascertaned, samples
of the article were forwarded to ten thousand ply
scians, including all the leading practitioners in
the United States, for purposes OF experiment. A
circular, requesting a trial of the preparation and
a report of the result, accompanied each specimen.
Four thousand Of the most eminent medical men
in the Union promptly responded Their opin-
ions of the article unanimously favorable.
Such preparation they said, had long been want ed
by the profession, reliance could be placed
on the ordinary liquors of commerce. all of which
were more or less adullcraicd, and therefore unfit
for medical purposes The peculiar excellence and
strength Of the oil Of juniper, which formed one
of the principal ingredients of the Schnapps, to-
echer with an unaoycd character Of the alcohol
ic element, give it, in the estimation of the faculty,
n marked superiority over every other difusve
simuant as diurctic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men Of the highest rank were published in II con-
dcnscd form, and enclosed with each bottle of the
Schnapps rs one of the guarantees of lis genuine
ness Other precautions against fraud were also
adoptcd patent was obtained for the article.
the label was copyrighted, fac SmHe Of the pro-
prictors autograph signature was attached o each
label and cover, his name and that Of the piepara
ton were embossed on the bottles, and the corks
were sealed with his private scnl. No article bad
ever been sold in this country under The name Of
Schnapps prior to the introduction of Wolfe's
Schiclam Aromatic Schnapps. in 1851; and the
label was deposited, ms his trade mark, in the Uni
ted States District Court for the Southern District
of New York that year.
1t might he supposed by persons unacquan,cd
with the daring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation of honorable merchants by
vending dcct crous trash under their name that
the protection so carefully thrown around these
Schnnpps would have prccludcd the introduction
and sale of councrlcils They seem, however, to
have only stimulated the rapnciiy of imposlers
The trade mark of The proprietor has been stolen;
the Endorsement which his Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from the medical profess
sion has been claimed by mendaciuus humbugs;
his labels and bottles have been inflated his adj
vcrtscmenls parapIrascd. his circulars copied, and
worse than all, dishonOrablc retailers, after dispo-
sing Of the genuine contents of his bottles, have
filled them up with common gn the most delete
rious of all liquors. and thus made his name and
brand n cover for poison
The public, the medical profession aud the sick,
for whom The Schicdam Aromatic Schuapps is
prescribed as remedy, are equally Interested