The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1869-01-14
WHEN THEpURE MEDICINAL

known ss WOLFES SCtitbDaM
SCHNAPPS, was introduced into the
world under the endorsement OF four u
thousand leading members of the med',
cal profession some twenty years ago,
its proprietor was well aware that II II
could not wholly escape the penalty at
tached to all new and useful prepara'
tions. he, therefore, endcavcrcd to
invest it with strongest possible safe,
opord against counterfeiters, and to
FENDER ali at,tnpts to pirate it difficult
and dangerous. It was submitted to
distinguished chemists for analysts, and
PRONOUNCED by them the pdrest spirit
ever manufactured. Its purity and
properties having been thus ascettalned,
samples of the article we're forwarded to
len thousand physicians, including all
the lcauing practitioners in the United
States, for rthe purposes Of experiment.
\ circular, requesting a trial of the
Drepara,ion and report Of the, result
accompanied each specimen -Four :! :
thousand o. the Fnqst eminent medlcIl
men in the Union ion promptly responded.
Their opinions Of ,he article were unan,
imously favorable. Such preparation
they said, had long been wanted by tho
profession, as no reliance could be
placed on the ordinary liquors, of com
nrerce, all of which were more or less
adultcra,ed, and therefore unit tyr
medical purposes. The peculiar excel,
lepce aud strength, of the oil of jtuiper,
which formed one of the principal: in,
grcIicn,s of the Schnapps, together
with an unalloycd character of the alec
hol element, give it, in; the esHm!a'Elon
of the faculty, a marked superiority
over every other diffusige sfimplart as
diur,tic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials IRON
professional men of the highest RANK,
were published in i condensed form
and enclosed with each bottle Of the
Schnapps; as one fits .genulneness -
Other. precautinnslagai fraud were
also adopted; a patent was obtained Tor
the article, the label was. copyrighted, a
tnc simile of the proprictors autograph
signature was attached to each label anu
cover. his uanic ard that OF the prepar,
o,iun were sealed with his private seal.
No article had ever been sold in this
country under lhc name of Schn9pps
rrior to the Introduction c" NoIIGs
Schicdam Aromatic Schnapps, in 1856
and the label was deposited, as his trade
mark, in the United District Court for
the Sou. hcru District Of New lork du-
ring that year. ". "
|, might be supposed by persons un,
acGuaintcd with the daring character oI
,he pirates who prey upon the rcruta-
tion OF honorable merchants hy ccHdtng
dri.,.sions trash uhlcr their maze, that
The nrotcc.inns 50 carefully thrown a
round these Schunpps would huve pre-.
eluled the in!roductions and sale OF
rouutcrfc!ts Thcy seem, however, ""!y
to- have stimulated the ranaclty OF IN
nos,ms. The trade mark Of the pro-
rrictor his been sto(en; the l"d"rse'
mcur which l.is Se!i"dant Aromatic
Fchnsrp< li0nc received from the 'mcd'-
,.I ,r,,,~,i,t. h,slnGn c'.fucd Wy mvn-
,r;nu* hnrhii.S; NJ labels AMI bftles'
hive been i,ai;air.i, lis advertisements
n,ra,hrssc,i, his circulars copied; and
wor.r than al. dishonorablc retailers,
atrtr lspn,ing of the gcuuinc contents
Of: his buttlcs have filed them mp With
common in, The most lclc:crlous OF
MI li,rurr<, and sims made his. ualneand
brand a cover f,r poison. .s.'- .'... d.
The public, the medical profession,
and the sick, for whom the Schiedam
Aromatic Scliuapps is prescribed as a
remedy, arc equally Interested with the
proprietor in the detection and suppres-
sion of these nsfatious' practices. The
genuine article, manufactured at the
establishment of the Undersigned in
Schiedam, Holland, is distilled from
barley of the finest quality, and fla
tored with an essential extract of the
berry of the italian juniper, of unequal
led purity BY a.proeess unknown in
the preparation Of, any liquor, it is
freed from every acrimonious and cor
rosive element. - ,.,. ...
Complaints have been received from
the leading physicians and families III
Southern States of the sale of cheap
limitations of the Schiedam Aromatic
Scilnapps in those markets';and trav-
ellcrS, who are in the habit of using it as
an antidote to the bancful influence of
uuwholesome river water, testify that
cheap Gin, put up in Schnapp bottles,
is ircquently palnca off upon the uii
wary. The ag 'nts ut the undersigned
have been requested to hlstitute iuqui-
tles on the subject, and to forward to
him the names Of such parties as they
may ascertain to be engaged in the
atrocious system of deception. In con-
elusion, the undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under the hands
of the most distinguished mon ofscience
10 America, proofs unanswerable Of the
,,r;,r ,pd u,a1io;pol eynpllpnce of tho