The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-23
Sfbiebam Sfbnapps.
oFFIoE OF UpoLPHo WOLFE, !
Soc Impo, ter ofthe Schieddut Aromatic SchnaRps,
No. 22 Beayer-strcct.
Nrr, Vonu Nnvnnn her & 1863.
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NEW York, November 8. 1863
To the People Of the Southern States;
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE.
now so widely known as WoLFE'S SCH1EDAM
SC aNAPPS, was introduced into the world under
the endorsement of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession some twenty years ago. its
proprietor was well aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attacbed TO all new and useful
preparations. He, therefore, endeavored to invest II
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feters, and to render oil attempts to pirate 1t dill
cult and dangerous. 1t was submitted to dtstln-
gulshed chemists for analysis, and pronounced oy
them the purest spirit ever manufactured It's purl-
ty and properties having been thus ascertnlned, sam
Piles of the article were forwarded to ten Thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners IN
the United States, for purposes OF experiment..
circular requesting trial of the preparation aDd
report OF the result, accompanied each specimen.
Four thousand of the most eminent medical mon IN
the Union promptly responded. Their opiolohs OF
the article were unanimously favorable. sucp
preparation, they snid, had long been wanted by
the profession no reliance could be placed on The
ordinary liquors of commerce, all OF wnlch were
more OF less adulteratcd. and therefore unit ior
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength of the oi of juniper, which formed one OF
the principal ingredients Of the schnapps' together
with an unalloyed character of the aiconohc ele-
ment, give It, in the estimation of the faculty, o
marked superlo-ty over every other diusive stinu-
liant as diureiic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank were published in con-
denscd form, and enclosed with each bottle of the
schnapps, as Of the guarantees OF its genuine.
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
aiopted; patent was obtained for the article, the
label copyrighted ac Snitie OF the propr1elors
autograph signature was attached to each label anu
cover his name aud that of the preparation were TN
ossed on the bottles and the corks were sealed win
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.
1t might be supposed by persons pna"qualn'cd
with the during character of the pira'es WHO prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vcnd-
lug dcletcr;ous trash under their nae that the Pro-
tectons so carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have precluded the introducons and sale OF
counterfeils They seem, however, only 10 nave
stimulated the rapacity Of impostor'. The trade
mark OF til, proprietor has been stolen; The ndorsc
ment which his Sshicdam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious huWbuSs; Ills hoels anu
bottles have been inflated his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied and worse than ALL
dishonorac retailers after dsposing OF genuine
contents Of his bottles, have filled them up Will
common en the mos, dele;erieus of all liquors, aud
thus made his name and brInd cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession aud the SICK,
for whom tho Schicdam Aromatic Schnapps is pre-
scrbcd as remedy, arc equally interesci with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression OF tlesc
neiarious practices. The genuine article, manu'ac-
turcd at the establishment of the undersigned in
chedam, Holland, Is distilled tronra barley OF lie
finest quality und favored with al essential extract
of tho berry of the Itaun jutipe" OF unequaed pu-
rity. By 4 process unknown in the preparation oi
ans other liquor it ls freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive clement.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in the southern States Oh
the sale of cheap limitations of the Schiedam Aro-
matte Schnapps III those markets; and travellers
who are in the habit oil using 1t IN anideie to the
buucful influence Of unwbolesomc river water. es-
trt oucu,ly palincd 0I upon mo unwIry. rue
agcuts OF tue undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on the Subject, anl to forward TO
him the names OF such parties cs they may ascrr-
tain 10 be engaged in the atrocious system OF dctcp-
tion III conclusion. The undersigned would say that
he has prod uccd, from under the hands Of the most
distn2ui. she'd nen Of science in America, proofs
answerable OF the purify md medicinal excel.
lcncc OF tho Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur.
rounding il will guarantees aud safeguards, which
he designed Hhould project the public and himself
against fraudulent limitations; that he has shown IL
to be the only liquor III the world that can be uni
fornly depended upon as unaduterated; TINT he has
challenged Investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in all its forms; and from every ordcll
the preparation viii, h bears his pame seal and trade
mark has come of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
it duty he owes to lis telow-citizns generally, to
the medical profession and the sick, 10 denounce
and expose the cbsratans who counterfeit these evil
denotes OF identity, and lie calls upon the press and
The ublic to aid him In his efforts remedy so great
an evil.
The following letters and certificates from tho
loading physicians aud che nlst OF this city will
prove to Tho reader that all goods sold by the under
signe arc all that they arc repro cnted to be.
UDOLpHO WOLFE.
I feel bound to say, that regard your Schnapps
as beng in every respect pre-einincntly pure and
deserving OF medical patronage At al events, 1t is
tile purcst possible article OF Holland Gin, hereto
fore uuoUtalpaUle aud as such may be safely pr
scribcd by physicians
DAVID l.. MOTT, NJ. D.,
Pharmaceutical CtclnIst, New York
2G IlSE-srnEET, NEW YORK.,
November 81 lSG7
UDoLPlio WOLFF. Esq, ItscIst:
Ueur yiy-I have male chemical examination of