The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-19
Sebieoam Sebnapps.

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OFFICE OF UDOLpHO WOLFE
NO S2 BeRver.street.
NEW YORK, November g. 1868.
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 endorsement Of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession twenty years ago, its
proprietor we'll aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all and useful
preparations. He therefore, endeavored to invest ii
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters, and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous. 1t submitted to dstin.
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the pures spirit ever manufactured. Its puri-
ty and properties having been thus ascertained
pies of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the 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 Of
the article were unanimously favorable. Such a
preparation, they said had long been wanted by
the profession, as reliance could be placed the
ordinary liquors of commerce, all of which were
more or less adulterated, and therefore unfit for
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 alcoholic ele-
ment. give It, in the estimation Of the faculty,
marked superiority over every other dffusive stimu
liant as diuretic, tonis and restorative,
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank were published I'm a 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
label was copyrighted aac siile Of the proprietors
autograph signature attached to each label ana
cover. his name and that of the preparation
bossed the bottles aud the corks were sealed with
his prtvate 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 1854; 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 ofhonorable merchants by vend
ing deeterious trash under their name, that the pro-
tections carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have precuded the introductons and sale Of
counterfeits. They seem, however. only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors. The trade
ment which his Schiedam Aromatic sohnapps alone
| received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels ana
bottles have been imiated his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than ALL
dshonorable retailers after dsposing Of the genuine
| contents Of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most deeterious of all liquors. aud
| thus made his name and brand cover for poison.
| The public the medical profession and the sick,
| for whom the Schiedan Aromatic Schnapps is pre-
scribed o remedy, equally interested with the
proprietor in the Detection and suppression of these
nefarious pl actices. The genuine article, manufac-
tured at the establishment OF the undersigned in
chiedam, Holland, is distilled from barley of the
finest quality and favored with essential extract
of the berry Of the Italian juniper, of unequaled 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 1t antidote to the
baneful influence Of unwholesome river water. tes.
tify that cheap gin put up in Schiedam bottles is
| frequently palmed of upon the unwary. The
agents OF the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries the subject and to forward to
l
tain to be engaged in the atrocious system Of decep-
ton. In conclusion the undersigned would soy 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
ne 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 he has shown 1t
to be the only liquor In the world that can be uni.
formly depended upon as unadulterated that he has
challenged investigation analysis, comparison ana
experiment In oil Its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation which bears hts name seal and trade
mark, has come of triumphant BE, therefore, feels
1t duty he owes to Ills felow-citzens generally to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charlatans who counterfeit these evil
denoies of identity and he calls upon the press ana
the public to aid him in his efforts to remedy 60 great
an evil e-
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians and chemists Of this city will
to the reader that all goods sold by the under
signed are all that they are repres ented to be-
I UDOLPHO WOLFE.
Ifeel bound to say, that I regard your sohnapps
deserving Of medical patronage At ali events, it is
the purest possible article Of Holland Gin, hereto
scribed by physicians.
DAVID L. MOTT, M, d..
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York
~. rs PINEsTRERT, New YoRK)
November 21, 1867.
UDoLPHo WoLTE ESQ.,, Present: 3's.I'lSEs
Dear Sir--I have made chemical examination Of
sample OF your schiedam Schnapps with the In
tent Of determining II any foreign or injurious sub
stance had been added to the simple distilled spirits
The examination has resulted in the conclusion
that the sample contained nopoisohous Or harmful
admtxtnre ! have bebn unebls TO discover any
ployed In the sdulteration Of liquors. Iwould not
hesitate to uee myself or to recommend to Others
for medicinal purposes, the SchiedaIn Schnapps as
an excellent and unobjecticnable variety Of GIN,
Very respectfully yours, r
(etgned.) CHAs. A. SEELY, Chemist.