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Srb!sbam Sebnapps.

Sfb!foam Sfbnapps.
OFF IoE OF UDoLpHo WOLFE,
''s N"SD'' ecT V Mc Sch,edGna Aromatic SchnappS,
| = No. 20 Bcaver-strcCt.
NEW YORK, November 3, 1885,
no the People OF tho Southern states,
| WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE.
| now so widely known as WOLFE'S sCHIEDAM
s&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 attached to all new and useful
preparations He. therefore, endeavored to invest
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
letters and to render oil attempts to pirate 1t diff
| cult and dangerous. 1t was submitted to dtstin-
gulsned chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit manufactured. It's puri-
y and properties having been thus ascertained sam
pies of the article forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners in
| lae United States, for purposes of experiment. A
circular, requesting trial of tho preparation and
| report of the result, accompanied each specimen
-Four thousand of the most eminent medical men In
| the Union promptly responded Their opipions of
the article were unanimously favorable Such a
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 adulterated. and therefore unfit for
medlcal purposes The peculiar excellence and
strength of the OF of juniper which formed ono 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. a
marked superiority every other diffusive stuu-
| liant as a diureic. 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
iapel was copyrighted, fac SiLe of the proprioors
autograph signature was attached to each abol and
cover, his name and that of the preparation were en-
tossed on the botles aud 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 Wolfes Schiedam Aromatic
schnapps, in 1851; and the label was deposited as
bis trade mark, in the United States District Court
for the Southern District of New York during that
year.
1t might be supposed by persons unacauain,ed
with the daring character of the pirates who prev
upon the reputation ofhonorabe merchants by vend-
ing 0eeterous trash under their name that the pro-
tecuons SO carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would nave prccluded the introductions and sale of
counterielts. They seem, however, only to have
simulated the rapacity of impostors. The trade
mark of tho proprietor has been stolen the ndorsc
ment which his sohiedam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied and worse than all,
retailers after dsposing of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most deleterious of all liquors aud
thus made his name and br md cover for poison
The public, the medical profession and the sick
for whom the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is pre-
scrtbed rs remedy, equally interoste with the
proprietor IN the detection and suppression Of these
nearious practices The genuine article manuiac-
tured at the establishment of the undersigned in
schiedam, Holland, is distilled from barley of the
finest quality, and favored with an essential extract
OF the berry of the italian unper of unequaed pu-
rity. By 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 aniidote to the
baneful influence Of unwholesome river water tes-
my 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 the subject and to forward to
him the names Of such parties they may ascsr-
tain to be engaged in the atrocious 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 medicinal 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 limitations; that he has shown 1t
to be the only liquor In the world that can be uni
formy depended upon as unadulterated; that he has
challenged investigation. analysis, comparison and
experiment in all It's forms; and from every ordesl
the preparation which bears his pame seal and trade
mark, has come Off triumphant. He, therefore feels
1t duty he owes to Ills fellow-ctizens generally to
he medical profession and the SICK to denounce
and expose the charlatans who counterfeit these eyi
denotes of identity, and he calls upon the press and
the public to aid him In his efforts to remedy go great
evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians and che nistl of this city will
to the reader that all goods sold by the under
signel are oil that they are repre-, ented to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
Ifeel bound to say, that regard your Selma DDS
as being In every respect pre-eminently pure and
the purest possible article Of Holland Gin. hereto
tore unobtainaole. and as such may be safely pre-
scribed by physicians.
DAVID L. MOTT. M. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist New York
26 PINE-sTREET, New YoRx,)
November 81. 1867
UpoEpRo WOLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear iSir-I have made chemical ex animation of
sample Of your soh.edan, schnapps, with the in
stance bad been added to the simple distilled spirits
The examination has resulted In the conclusion
that the sample contained polsonous or hlrmful
admtxture. have been unable to discover any
trace OF the deleterious substances wich are en-
ployed in the adnlteration Of liquors would not