The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-21
Sfbifoam Sfhnapps.

vi the medlcal profession some twenty years ago. its
proprietor was well aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations. He. therefore, endeavored to invest IL
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feters, and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous. 1t was submitted to distin.
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured. It's pur-
ty and properties having been thus asceraincd sam
pies 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 and
report OF the result accompanied each specimen
Four thousand of the most eminent medical men in
the Union promptly responded. Their opiuions Of
tho 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
moro or less adulterated, and therefore unfit for
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength Of the OF of juniper, which formed Of
the principal ingredients of the Schnapps together
with an unalloyed character of the alcoholic ele.
ment, give It, In the estimation Of the faculty. q
marked superiority over every other diusive stimu
liant as diuretic. tonic and restorative
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank published in q con-
densed form, and enclosed with esch bottle of the
schnapps, as one of the guarantees of it's genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent was obtained for the article the
label was copyrighted, fac siite Of the proprieors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his name and that of the preparation were en-
bossed the bottles 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 Wofe's Schiedam 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 Of honorable merchants by vend-
Ing deleterous trash under their name that the pro-
tectons carefully thrown ar6und these schnapps
would have precluded the introductions sale OF
countcrfeits. They seem however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors. The trade
mark of thu proprietor has been stoen the indorse-
ment which his schiedam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated his advertisements para
phrased his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dishonorable retailers, after dsposing of the genuine
contents OF his bottles, have filled them up with
common gin, the most deleerous of all liquors, aud
thus made his name and brand for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the SICK
for whom the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is pre-
scrtbed as remedy, are equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression of these
nearous practices. The genuine article manufac-
tured at the establishment of the undersigned in
chedam, Holland, is distilled from barley Of the
finest quality, and favored with essential extract
of the berry Of the Italian juniper of uncoualed pu
r1ty. BY q process unknown in the preparation Of
any other liquor it is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive element.
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 those markets; and travellers
who are in the habit of using antidote to the
baneful influence of unwholesome river water tes
tify that cheap gin, put up in Schiedam bottles is
frequently palmed off upon the unwary. The
agents of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on the subject and to forward
him the names OF such parties as they may asc,r-
tain to be engaged In the atrocous system Of decep
tion In conclusion, the undersigned 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 medicine, excel
lence OF the Schiedam Aromatic schnapps that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur.
rounding 1t with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should protect the public and himself
against fraudulent imitations that lie has shown 1t
to be the only liquor in the world that can be uni
formly depended upon unadulterated; that he has
challenged investigation. analysis. comparison and
experiment In all Its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation which bears his name seal and trade
mark, has come off triumphant. He, therefore, feels
1t duty he owes to Ills tellow.ctizens generally to
the medical profession and the SICK to denounce
and expose the charlatans who counterfeit these evil
nj he lIo
the public to aid him in his efforts to remedy 80 great
an evil. ss.-i
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 UNDER
signed are all that they repres ented to be.
*. UDOLPHO WOLFE
I feel bound to say, that regard your Selma ops
as being In every respect pre.eminently pnre ana
deserving OF medical patronage At ali events it ia
the purest possible article Of Holland Gin hereto
fore tore %unobtainaole, and as such may be safely pr.
DAVID 1. MOTT. M. D..
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York
2e pINE-sTREET, NEW YORK,
November 81, 1867.
UDoLPHo WOLFE, Esq, Present:
(, @ Dear Ssr-l have made chemical examination Of
sample Of your Schiedam Schnapps, with the i'm
tent Of determining II any foreign or Injurious amt.
stance bad been added to the simple distilled spirits.
that the sample contained no poisonous or harmful
admtxture. have been unable to discover ony
trace Of the deleterious substances wich are om.
ployed In the adulteration Of liquors. would not
hesitate to use myself or to recommt md to otherD
for medicinal purposes, the schiedam Schnapps %
an excellent and nnobjecttonable variety Of gin.
Very respectfully yours, "
Qsigned) CHAS. A. SEELY, Chemist.
G NEW YonK, No. So CEDAR-srREET, /
November 20, 1867
UDoIpHo WOLFE, Esq. Present: ..''l
Dear Sir--I have submitted to chemical analysis
two bottles OF '.Schiedam Schnapps," which TOOK
iron, fresh package in your bonaed warehouse, and
find, az before, that the spirituous liquor is tree
from injurious ingredients fasifcation; that It
has the marks OF being aged and not recently pre-
pared by mechenical admixture Of alcohol and aro-
matics.
Respectfully, FRED. p. MAYER,
F. Chemist.