The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-01-12
Office of Udolpho Wolfe.

22 BEAVER STREET, New YORK, Nov. g. SS
To Tie People Of the Southern States
When the pure medicinal restorative. now so
widely known as Wolfe's SCHIEDAM SCHNApPS.
was introduced into the world, under the endorse
ment OF 600 leading members of the medical pro-
fession, some twenty years ago, it's proprietor was
well aware that it could not wholly escape the
penalty attached to new and useful preparations
he, therefore, endeavored to invest it with the
strongest possible safeguard against counterfeit
ers. and to render all attempts to pirate it difficult
and dangerous. 1t WAS submitted to distinguish
ed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by them
tho putesI spirit ever manufactured. Its purity
and properties having been thus ascertained,
samples OF the article were forwarded to 10000
physicians, including all the leading practitioners
In the United States, for purposes of experiment.
circular, requesting trial of the preparation
ana report @ OF the result accompanied each
specimen. 1000 of the most eminent medical mon
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 no reliance could be placed on
the ordinary liquors of commerce. all of which
were more or less aduterated, and, therefore,
lence and strength OF the oil OF juniper which
formed one of the principal ingredients of the
Schnapps. together with an unalloyed character
OF the alcoholic element, give it, III the estimation
OF the faculty, a marked superiority over every
other diffusiyc stimuant dIurctic, tonic and
restorative
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men OF tho highest rank published in
condensed form, and enclosed with each bottle
.
gcnulnenes5. Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent was obtained for the
article, the label was copyrighted fac simae of
the proprlctor's autograph signature attached
to each label and cover. his name and that of the
preparation were embossed 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
Schledam Aromatic Sohnapps, in 1851; aid the
United States District Court for the Southern Dis
trict of New York during that year.
IL might be supposed, by persons unacQuanted
with the daring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation OF honorable merchants, by
vending deleterious trash under their name that
the projections carefully thrown around these
Schnapps would have precluded the introductions
AMI sale of counterfeits They seem. however
only to have stimulated the rapacity of impostcrs
the endorsement which his Schicdam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from the medical pro-
fcsslon has been caimedb mcndacious humbugs;
his Labels an bottles have been initiated his ad-
vertisements paraphrased, his circulars copied
and, worse than all, dishonorable retailers after
disposing or the genuine contents OF his bottles,
nave hlkcd them up with common GIN the most
deletercus of ell liquors. and thus made i.is name
and brand a cover for poison.
Ihe public. the medical profession and the sick.
for whom the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is
prescribed as remedy, are equally interested with
the proprietor in the detection and suppression of
these nefarious practices. The genuine article,
manufactured at the establishment of tho under
signed, IN Schledam. Holland, is distilled from
hs:!sE o; the finest Quality, and favored with an
jumper, of uneQuaed purity. BY process un-
known III the preparation OF any other liquor it is
freed from cvery acrimonious and corrosive ee-
ment.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in the Southern States,
of the sale of cheap limitations OF the Schiedam
Aromatic Schnapps in those markets; and travel
ers, who are in the habit Of using it as an antidote
to the banefpl influence of unwholesomo river
water, testify that cheap gin, put up in Schiedam
bottles, is frequently palmed off upon the unwarv
IheaEents of the undersgne d have been requested
to institute inquiries on the subject, and to for
ward to him the names OF such parties as they
may ascertain to be engaged in the atrocious
system OF deception. In conclusion, the under
signed would say that he has produced from under
the hands of the most distinguished men of
science in America, proofs unanswerablc of the
purity and medicinal excellence of the Schiedam
aromatic Schnapps that he has expended many
Thousand dollars in surrounding it with guarantees
and safeguards, which he designed should protect
the pubic and himself against fraudulent imita-
tions; that he has shownt to be the only liquor in
the world that can be uniformly depended upon
as unadulturated; that he has challenged investi
CATION, analysis, comparison and experiment in
all It's forms: and from every ordeal the propa-
ration which bears his name, seal and trade mark
has come off triumphant. He, therefore, feels it
duty he owes to his fellow citizens generally, to
the medical profession and tho sick, to denounce
and expose the Charlatans who counterfeit these
evidences Of identity and he calls upon the press
ana the public to aid him in his efforts to remedy
so great an evil.
The following letters and certificates. from the
leading physicians and chemists of this city, will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the
undersigned are all they are represented to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
feel bound to say, that regard your Schnapps
as being, in every respect, pre-eminently pure,
and deserving of medical patronage. At all events,
it is the purest possible article of Holland Gin
heretofore understandable; and, as SUCH may be
safely prescribed by ply scians.
DAVID L. MOTT, NIL,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York.
2G PINE STREET, New YORK, Nov 81 1867
Ctlolpho HoJe, ESQ., Present.
DEAR SIR lave made chemical examna ton
OF sample of your Schiedam Schnapps, with