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OFFICE OF UDoLPHo WOLFE. |
Sole Impo, ter Of the Schiedam aromatic Schnapps
No 22 Bcaver-strcot.
NEW YORK. NoYamher B. 1863

No 22 Bcaver-strcct.
NEW YORK, November 3. 1865
To the People of the Southern States,
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE.
now 80 widely known as WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
sCaNAPPS, was in reduced into the world under
the endorsement Of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession twenty years ago, its
proprietor was well aware that 1t could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations. He, therefore, endeavorcd 10 invest II
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feters and to render oil attempts to pirate 1t diff
cult and dangerous. II was submitted to distin.
gu,shed chemists for analysis, und pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured Its puri-
ty and properties having thus ascertaincd sam
pos Of the article wers forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including oil slo leading practitioners in
the United States, for purposes of experiment. A
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 opinions oil
the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession as reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors OF commerce, all of which were
more or less adulterated. and therefore unit for
medical purposes. The peculiar ex ellence and
strength Of The oi of juniper. which formed one Of
the principal ingredients OF the Schnapps. together
with an unalloyed character Of the alcoholic Gle
ment, give it. in the estimation OF the faculty,
marked superiority over every other diusive stinu-
liant as diurs;ic tonic and restorative
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank were published in con-
dcnsed lorm, and enclosed with each bottle of the
Schnapps, as one of the guarantees of its genuine
ncss. Other precautions against fraud wore also
adopted; patent was obtained for the article, the
label copyrighted, fac simie OF Tho proprioors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his aud that of the preparation were en-
5osscd on the bottles and the cork1 were sealed with
his private seal. No article had ever been sold in
tl!is country under the name Of Srhnapps prior to
the Introduction of Wolfc's schicdam Aromatic
Schnapps in 1851; and the label was deposited, rs
his trade mark, in the United States District Court
for the Southern District of New York during that
year.
II might be supposed by persons una:quainied
with the ring character of the ptra!es who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorabe merchants by vcnd-
ing decterous trash under their name that the rro-
tections so carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precuded the in,roductions and sale oil
countcrfcits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of mpostors. The trade
mark OF tn proprietor has been stolen; the ndorsc
ment which his schedam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbuss; his labels and
bottles have been inflated his advertisements para
phrased his circulars copied. aud worse than all,
dishonorabc retailers after dsposing The genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common ein the most dcieerous Of all liquors, and
thus made his name and brInd cover for poison.
Tho public, tho medical profession and the sick,
for whom the scliedam Aromatic Schnapps is pre-
scribcd us remedy, are equally interes;c with the
proprietor in the detection pnd suppression of those
ncarous practices. The genuine article. manuiac-
turcd at tie establishment OF the undersigned in
Schicdarn, Holland, is distilled froI barley of the
finest quality, and favored with an essential extract
of the berry OF tho Italian u ipe OF unequallcd pu-
riiy. Dy a process unknown in the preparation CT
any other liquor it is freed from every acrimonious
aud corrosive element.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in tho Southern States OF
the salo of cheap limitations of the schiedam Aro-
mahc Schnapps in those marke;s and travellers,
who are in the habit OF using it as an andotc to tho
bancful influence of unwholesomo river wafer. tes-
tify that cheap gin put up In Schicdam bottles, Is
frequently pnlncd Off upon tho unwary. Tho
ogcuts of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries the bjec and to forward to
him the names of such parties as they may asc'r-
tain to be engaged in the atrocious system of dcccp
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 m1ny thousand dollars in sur
rounding 1t with guarantees and safeguards, Which
he designed should protect the public and himself
against fraudulent imitations; that he has shown 1t
to bo the only liquor the world that can be uni-
formIy depended upon as unadulterated that he has
challenged investigation. analysis comparison and
experiment in nil Its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation viii, bears his pame seal and trade
mark has come of triumphant He, therefore. feels
It dutyhe owes to his tcllowcitz generally, to
he medical profession aud the sick, to dcnouncc
and expose the charlatans who counterfeit these ev
denotes of identity and he calls upon the press and
The ubhc to aid him in his efforts to remedy great
an evil.
Tho following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians and che nlsts OF this city will
prove to the reader that M goods sold Icy the under
signe] are all that they ore repre- eutcd to be.
UDoLPHO WOLFE.
Ifec bound to say. that regard your Schna2 2ps
as beng In every respect prc.eminently pure, and
deserving medical patronage. at all events 1t is
the purcst possible article of Holland Gin. h,rcto
tore nuo obtainable, and such MAY be safely pre-
scribed by physicians.
DAVID L. MOTT. N. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York
2G IISE-srnEET, NEW YORK,
November ~, 1851.
UpoLpHo WOLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear Sir have mn lc u cheinical examination OF
q sample Of your Schcdan schnapps with tlc in- |
tent Of lctcrm ming II any fu- i!u crinjurous sur
stance mad bcen added to th SIMPLE distilled spirits
The exam" alton has resulted Ill the conclusion
that the sample contained no pnlsopo s or Ii .rnfu
adnliYture. have totu Unable 10 discover any |
tucc OF the dclrtcriuns substances wich are en-.
ploycd in the Iilltcrdion uf liquors. would not