Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1879 — “Vaseline.” [ARTICLE]

“Vaseline.”

A new product made from petroleum is a jelly called “Vaseline,” which is of the greatest utility in medicine, pharmacy and for toilet use. Physicians all over the world have discovered its great value in the treatment of wounds, burns, skin diseases, rheumatism, catarrh ana every ailment where a liniment is needed, and in almost every hospital in America and Europe this substance is now in constant use, and is acknowledged not only to be the best treatment, but also one of the most important recent additions to medicine. Its healing and pain-allay-ing qualities being superior to those of any known substance, while the speedy relief it affords for piles and chilblains is almost magical. As an emollient, Vaseline is way ahead of anything else, as it renders the skin smooth, soft, and clear, and our lady friends will find it not only the best, but perhaps the sole substance which will really preserve and restore to the complexion the hues of youth, making the cheek like velvet and the skin like satin. There is also made a “Pomade Vaseline,” which is said to be of great benefit to the hair, keeping it soft and glossy, preventing and curing dandruff, and keeping the scalp healthful and free from disease, ana from those objectionable creatures which sometimes find a dwelling there. Numberless instances are cited of how, by the use of this pomade, thin and falling hair has resumed a vigorous growth. Butihe pure Vaseline and the pomade are put up in twenty-five cent bottles and are to be found at all first-class druggists’, and we advice our readers to make a trial of this wonderful substance, and we think they will find its claims to merit not in the least exaggerated.