The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-02-16
( ONCE of Udolpho Wolfe,

"a BEAvEa STREET, New YoaK, Nov. 8, Bs.
To the 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 4 900 leading members Of the medical pro-
fesson, some twenty years ago, it's proprietor was
well aware that it could not wholly escape the
penalty attached to new and useful preparations
de, therefore, endeavored to invest it with tho
strongest possible safeguard against counterfeit
and dangerous 1t was submitted to distinguish
ed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by them
the purest spirit ever manufactured. Its purity
and properties having been thus ascertained,
samples OF tho article were forwar led to 10. 600
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. 1000 of the mos; eminent medical men
III the Union promptly responded. Their opinions
Of the article were unanimously favorable Such a
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
tho profession, reliance could be placed on
the ordinary liquors of commerce; all of which
were more or less adulterated, and, therefore
unht for medical purposes. The peculiar excel
!enco and strength or the oil of juniper, which
formed fn ono of the principal ingredients of tho
Schnapps. together with an unaloycd character
OF the alcoholic element, give it, in the estimation
OF the faculty, marked superiority over every
other diffusive stimuant tliurctic, tonic and
restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men OF tho highest rank published in a
CoAucubcQ form, anu enclosed With each bottle
OF the Schnapps, as one Of the guarantees of its
genuineness. Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent was obtained for the
article, tho label was copyrighted, fac S,ie of
the proprietor d autograph signature was attached
to each label and cover. his name and that Of the
preparation were embossed on the bottles and the
c0rks were sealed with his private seal. No article
mad ever boen sold in this country under the namo
OF Schnapps prior to the introduction of Wolfo's
Schicdam Aromatic Schnapps, in 1851; and the
label was deposited. as his trade mark in the
United States District Court for the Southern Dis
trct of New York during that year.
III. IL might nj be supposed, by persons unacquainted
with the daring character of tho pirates who prey
upon the reputation OF honorable merchants, by
vending dcetcrious trash under their name that
the projections so carefully thrown around these
Schnapps would have prccluded the introduct ions
and sale of countcricits They seem however
only to have stimulated the rapacty of imposters
Tho trado mark of the proprietor has been stolen:
the endorsement which his Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from the medical pro-
iesson has been claimed by mendacous humbugs;
his labels an bottles have been initiated, his adj
vertisements paraphrased, his circulars copied
and, worse than ALL dishonorablc retailers after
disposing OF the genuine contents of his bottles
nave uiied them up with common gin, the most
deletcrious of all liquors. and thus made his name
and brand cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
ior whom the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is
prescribed as remedy, are equally interested with
the proprietor In the detection and suppression of
these nefarous practices. The genuine article,
manufactured at the establishment of the under
slgned in Schiedam, Holland, is distilled from n
barley OF the finest quality. and favored with an
essential extract of the berry of the Italian
jumper, OF unequalled purity. BY process un-
known i'll the preparation of any other liquor it is
freed from every acrimonious aud corrosive elo-
ment.
Complaints have been received from tho leading
physicians and families in the Southern States,
OF the sale OF cheap limitations of tho Schicdam
Aromatic Schnapps in those markets; and travel
ers, who in the habit of using it as an antidote
to the baneful influence of unwholesome river
water, testify that cheap gin, put up in Schedam
The agents of the undersigned have been
to institute inquiries on the subject, and to for
ward to him the names OF such parties they
may ascertain to be engaged in the atrocous
system OF deception. In conclusion, the under
signed would say that he has produced, from under
the hands of the most Distinguished men Of
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 desig ned should protect
the public and himself against fraudulent imita-
tions that ho has shown it to be the only LIQUOR in
the world that can be uniformly depended upon
| ss unadulturated; that he has challenged invest.
gauon, analysis, comparison, and experiment in
all it's forms; and from every ordeal the prepa-
[ation which M bears his name seal and trade mark,
duty he owes to his feow-ctizens generally, to
the medical profession and tho sick, to denounce
and expose the Charlatans who counterfeit these
evidences of identity and he calls upoa the nress
and the public to aid him in his efforts to remedy
80 great an evil.
Inc iotoWing ietters and certificates, from the
leading physioians and chemists Of this city, will
prove to the reader that all goods sold BY the
undersigned arc all they represented to be-
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
feel bound to say, that regard your Schnapps
as beng, in cvery respect, pre-emnently pure,
and deserving Of medical patronage. At ali events
it is the purest possible article of Holland Gin
heretofore unobtainable; and, as such, may be
safely prescribed by ply sicians.
DAVID l.. MOTT, M. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist Nav York
26 PINE STREET, NEW York, Nov. 81, 1867
Udolpho Vote. Esq, Present.
DEAR SIR: have made chemical examina ton
OF sample OF your Schiedam Schnappa, with
the intent OF determining any foreign or Injurious
substance had been added to the simple distilled