Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1880 — BEAUTY BUT SKIN DEEP. [ARTICLE]

BEAUTY BUT SKIN DEEP.

How to Beautify, How to Preserve, and How to Treat when Diseased, the Skin and Scalp. lyM-L JOMILTX, M. as New York. Apert from the suffering caused by skin diseases, their influence on the bapyiqess of those to whom * dellcats and pearly corn pterion is the d rarest wish of their lives is paramount 'o all others. No lady afflicted with cutaneous eruptions, or loss of hair, will deny that. to ob ain a fe>r skm and luxuriant tresses, she would g'adly exchange the diefigurstkna that now mar her otherwise handsome see, hands, or hat*, for other diteas-s of greater severity, —even Canear—could their existence be eonc'afed from the publ'c eye. Manx an es lmable lady's Ufa has been enm’ttered by cutaneoue affections. She imagines that every on a ae s and uommen's upon her looks. She avoids society and pnblic plac s, and tndtoavers to hide her misery in see'usion. Here the strwgg'e to Improve her appearan * is renewed. No remedy 1b too rsgralslve or dsnrernns to be used. Arsenic is devouhM in large quanVths. mercury is taken inb really and applied exte nal'v, unt'l the teeth rati] ■in th> tr loosened ocke’s, and the ays em groans beneath the Icadtof poisons it is obliged to carry. If such b e the feelinia of one affl'cted with slight Skin blemishes, what must be the cordit*>n of those suffering from salt rbeum, tetter, ring w< ran, pempbi g” ( , , sorla’la, le rosy, lichen, cru-igo. and sca.d bead ? N > pen can fully describe th’ tortures then? endure. Ibath in many etses might be considered a blessing. The burnt g heat, Inflamm tioo, an 1 inching n-arly in pel the sufle er to do violence 'o himself in order to erd his suffer ncs. I have seen patients tear their flesh with their nai’s unti the blood floret! Ip st-eanra. Others have ’old me that they eonld cut the flesh from lielr drabs bo great ws> the »gony they endured With S view to impart some ueef 1 information on the construction and preservation of the skin, sralp, rnd ha>r, a’.d 'h - proper tp»ahment ot th°m when diseased, I have here condensed to a popular form such Information as is most detired. THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SKIN. The skin is comp-sed of t-ro larers, which may bo separa'ed from each other by the action of a b ister. The thin por ion wh oh is raised up by the blis er is called the rcnrf skin, the outic'e, or the epii.ermis; that which remaiv in connection wi'h the body is the sensitive skin, the eulls, the d rma, or the’rue skin. Each has separate d ties to perform. The sca-f ’kin is horny and insensible, and serves as a sheath to protect tire more romitive skin under it. Were the rcarf skin taken off we could not bear to havi anything touch us. The derma or true skin, and its glands, oil tubes, etc., are the seat of all cutaneous dheaies. THE OIL AND SWEAT GLANDS. That the skin may be pliable and heathy It <s necee sary to hav= it oiled ev«»y day ; and for this he Creator has wisely provided by placing fn the true skin smsd glands and tubes, whose office it is to prepare and pour out upon the surface the proper am iut.t of oil On some parts of he to ly they do not exist, but are ab ndant on the face, nose, e rs, head, eyelids, etc. They produce the wax of the ears, and on ths h ad they open into the sheath of the h ir, and furnish it with nature's own hair oil or pomade. When th) skin it healthy these lit’le vessels are always at work, and constantly responding to the demands made up n the n. C> nsequently no person should be afraid to wash thoroughly every dry with soap and wate-, lest, as the “ Boston Medical Journal ” once taught, the skin bo injured by having the oil removed from it. FREQUENT WASHINGS WITH PURE SOAP (free from caustic alkalies) and lukewarm water, followed by brisk rubbing with a coarse towel, will do more to preserve the healthy action of the oil glands and tubes, upon w hich depends a clear and wholesome comple.xkn, than all the cosmetics Iti the world. So important is the free and perfect action of the sweat and fat or oil glands in the preservation of the general health, is well as the special condtt'on of the skin that particular attention to them will be rewarded by incteased physical health. They discharge upon the surface of the body about two and one-half pounds o' matt r per day, and their importance in the purification of the blood and fluids of the body is so great that were they closed by an impervious coat Ing, like i übber or oiled silk, daath would soon ensue. THE GREAT BKIN AND SCALP DISEASES. But bad as are minor forms of skin diseases, they sink i’ to insignificance when compared with the great skin and scalp diseases with which thousands are afflicted during their whole lives. Th.t the reader may know more about them, the principal affections a-e here named, omitting such as are symptoms of constitutional diseases, like measles, rash, etc. The most important are salt rhaum or eczema, tetter, ring worm, psoriasis, Impetigo, leprosy, lichen, prurigo, ba befs’ Itch, Jackson's itch, bakers’ itch, ground itch, sca ! d head and dandruff. Towering above all others In extent, in duration, In suffering, is ECZEMA, commonly called salt rheum. Wilson divides It into twlv ■ species, and others into many more ; but it is sufficiently c ear to the a -erage reader, and will be tecognizel by its small watery blister, about the size of a pinbead, wherever sen Prurigo, imetlgo, and peorii.-is are but little behind salt rbtum in tie suffering they cause. Scald bead Is another obstinate affection, defying all remedies, destroying the hair, and producing great misery and suff ring. Toe scalp, like the tkin, is subject to alt theum, tetter, dandr ift, and other eruptive and scaly diseases, which generally destroy the na’r follicles, and produce permanent baldness. THE TREATMENT of diseases of the tkin or rcalp has been for centuries based upon the mistaken theory that they are entirely due to tom) impurity of the llood. No spec'al attention has ever been directed to the important part the sweat and fat elands play in the propagadoa and maintenance of disease. It is no unjust reflection upon the medical prof sston to say that its efforts in the cure of skin diseases have been a frilu e. Whet with mistaken theories, poisonous r medie.’, and blind adher nee to methods and p actices oriuina'kng in ignoran e and superstition. salt rheum, scald h ad, and psorias s flourish and increase upon s- stems shattered by the c pi us use, t o h internal and external, of mercury, arse-Ic, zinc, a'd lead. For centuries it has been the popular nolion that diseases cf th-; skin and scalp must be cured, if cur<d at all, by p rrifying th blood. Admitti g that this is partly true, whet has been the m’thod or what the remedies by which it was sought to be accomplished t MERCURY AND ARSENIC. Putting aside the sens’less “sarsaparill’,” “dock,” and ‘’dandelion'’ “bl oil purifiers," and con idering only those remedies that have rec'-iv d the sanction of physicians, hospitals, and college’, we find that mercury and arsenic ere the only med'cinal agents of to-day, as they w,re hundreds of years ago which are regarded by the “regular" as hav ng specific m dical properties for the purifleati n of the blood, and hen e theonly reme lies adapted to the treatment of skin anti scalp d seasea. THE TRUE THEORY. Bat a little light is being thrown upon the darkness that has surrounded the intellect of the t ast. To a few German and French physicians and specia'ists we owe wh’t true progress we are making at the present time in the oure of obstnite affections of the s t and scalo. They teach and prove, (1) th’t diseases of the akin and sc Ip are caused by a derangement of the -wcretory an t <xc etory tubes and vetsels of >be true akin , and (2) that such di c s s or affe tious are a gravate.l an 1 maintained by polsorous tirids containing the v'rus of scrofula, malaria, er contag-.o is disease, which are dtscha ped from the blood and e rci ati g fluids upon the tk'n tnrough the sweat a”d fat glands. From these facts they successfully mat tain th t skin di eases cannot be cured so'ely by internal retwertics, nor rolel. by exte nal remedies, but by a judflc'ous use of both. Th se affect! ns ate rot wholly caused by impurities o the blood and c'rculating fluids, tot ate they due entirely to a diseased condition of the sweat and fat glads, tube) vessels, and ce’ls of the true skin, but to a peculiar and inseparable condi- on of Lo h. For it y< u treat the ore to the neZect of the ot v er, no progress la made; lutwilb at'entlon to both at the si me time, and the use of such remedies as I can here recommend, a cure is possible in nearly every case. “WHAT WE WANT,” said a distinguished authority on the skin, “ what we most ta nes ly desire in order to c re obstinate skin and s alp affections, are thr e great remedies, with as many specific prop rties, namely : “1 An internal remedy poss-ssing cathartic, tonic and site ative properties, which will enable it to expel through the natural purifiers of ths body, viz, the lungs, liver, kidneys, b we's. and skin, the c .ns’i'utioEal poison which floats in the blood and circulating fluids of the body. “2. An externa 1 , unchangeable application of jelly consistence that may irrest inflammation or iriltition and destroy fungus or parasitic giowths; and, “8, An emollient and healing soap, free from caustic alkanes and irri ating properties, for cleansing diseased surfaces, and partaking, in a milder form, the medicinal properties of the external appli cation. “ With three such remedies as I conceive it possible to p-eparc, but which I do not now know to exist, I will venture to assert that ninety per centum of the skin diseases in existence may be permanently cured." THE USUAL REMEDIES FAILURES. If I have appeared severe upon the medical profession, I have not been unjustly so towards physicians who adh re to practices at variance w.th reason and common-sense, and, wltha', lamentable fal'u e». I here assert that no ointment, salve, cerate, lotion or compound, for external application, nor alterat ve, or “blood pu'ifier,” for interna! use, to be found in the materia medica of the sell .o!s and colleges cf medicine,—and there are thousands of them,-will certainly cure a case 6f chronic salt rheum, psoriasis, or leprosy. 1 have tried them with all the care and experience suggested by a liberal education, but with unsatisfactory results as to specific curative properties. HOPE FOR THE AFFLICTED. Hence, when Messrs. Weeks & Potteb, Chemists and Druggists of Boston, Mass., informed me that for eight y<ars they ha t been experimenting with medicinal agents, and had obtaire-i—mostly from substances never leto.e used in med'clne, ind by a process original wilh themselves—three great remedies, which they believed to bean infallible cure for every kind of skin, icslp, tnd blood disease, from salt iheuin to dandruff, whether caused by a scrofulous or dis-ease-tainted blood, or by a morbid condition of the glrod->, tubes, vessels and cells of the tiue skin, or both, I was gratified beyond measure. As u.y life has teen and is devoted to the tieatment of skin and s alp diseases, to which I have given much study and attention 1 e.gc-rly embraced thes opportunity afforded me by Messrs. Weeks A Potzbo, to uiahs a tho.ougtr test of these remedies in my practi:e, determined, if successful, to give them such publicity as iheir merits entitled them to. This I now do after two yerrs of extraordinary success with them, with the object of thereby lessening, aa far »s in my power, the great suffering caused by the diseases under consideration. THE FIRST. The name given to the first of these great remedies is Cuticura, from cufis. the skin, and cura, a cure,— a skin cure. In practice, 1 found it possessed wonderful curative prop-.rties, as they exist in no other remedies of the Cay. It is rntiroly unlike anything for external app'icallon that I have ever seen before. It is of jdly consistence, free from grease, ol s or fats and does not contain a particli ot deleterious or unwboletome matter, and is to easly appl ed that no irrliation or pain is caused by its application to raw and inflamed surfaces. Cuticura when used as directed, is wonderfully ad pted to soothe and heal the mist inflamed surface. to allay itebings and irritations, that have been the t r'ureofa lifetime, to deitroy fungus or unnatural growths on the tkin and scalp, to heal ulcrs and scrofulous sores, to cleanse and purify the pores ot the skin and restore to healthy and regular action the oil glands, tubes, and cells, upon whose perfect

action depend the preservation of a healthy skin and restoration when diseased. It will not become rancid, or spot' on exp sure in any clima'e. It will be aa fresh, trazrant, soothing and healing fl ty years hence as it is to-day. Contrast this wiih the horrible salvea aad ointments of the i resent time I THE SECOND. Che Cuticara Medicinal Toilet Soap receives its characierivtic name from the remeoy to which it ov.i its valuable healing and useful properties. It is free from csu -tic alkalies, and is of a delicate, r atural green color. Its emol'ient, toothing and hea’ing action ia the same aa Cnticnra in a modified form. Aside from its medicinal properties, it is mere valued as a toilet, bath, and nursery san 41 e than any other soap. It cle nses. aooihes, whitens, and beautifies the skin, and is a natural p-r ventive of injury to the complexion and hands tom the heats of summer and the chUa of w inter. A n ounce of prevention ia nowhere rewarded with moie pounds of cure i han in the care of tte skin, and no re , eJy or method is more appropriate th a the Cut-c ra Soup. It diseo ves away undue exudation of greasy matter from the oil glands, wi ich eauses the akin to shine, prevents clogging of the pores and tubes, aad stimulates the circulation of uio..u inrougn the small blood vessels, giving color, freshness, snd besnty to the complexion, amply relaying every moment of csra. Tbl isop Is also specie 'lv p-epa-ed t'T shaving, and ia called Cuticura M diclnal Shaving Soap, and will bo found of great va'ue by gentlemen suffering from tender, inflamed, or diseased skin. THE THIRD great remedy aubmit'ed to me is ca'lcd the Cuticura Reeol ent, ‘ eeause of its imitate r< iatlon to Cut curs, in 'he cure of tkin and scalp diseases. Of all tie remedies for the purifleati n of the blood and circulating fluids that I have ever tested, none approach ia s ecllic medical action ths w onderful properties of t e Resolvent In fotty minuttt after taking the first dose it may be detected by chemical snalyrls in the eaii a. sweat, fat, an I > lood, showing that it baa enteied tb b'oo l and droulat ng flu'ds and made the entire cireivt of the human labyrinth many times. Chemical test show it to be present in the water with which the patient has bathed on rising in the morning, which proves conclusively that it has entered and become a part o-' ihe (iroulitin? Hui s, ena I'ng it to traverse every disease 1 ce l, tube, and vessel of the aaln, and leave its wholesome ions ituentj upon the surface of the body. But it do s more than this. It is a powerful purifying agent and liver stimulant It neutralizes and resolves a«ay bio d pois na, caused by the virus of ‘<ro ula, cancer, canker, malarial or contagioua diseas s. It destroys microsc pic insects er laiasites which in est the weter and air f malarial regions, and treed many forms of skin di eases. It regulates the s’.omich a d bo els, and perfects dl estion so as to adm t ot a ra id itictea e of wholesome tissue and stre> gth. Hence its power toelio irate from the system all the destruct! e elements that foster and maintain diseases of the blood, skin, and scalp. Having been charmed Ith the results of my analysis of these gi cat temedles, my next step was to demonstrate their valu; in the tieatm.-rtof the great skin, scrip, and bl od allee ions u ually considered incurable. 1 know that every word I now write WILL AWAKEN HOPE tn the breast of msny a lifelong sufferer. Can I, in a broad and Christian epi l .it, without prejudice, without reservation, say to those afflicted, “Heie in these gr at natural remedies, which may be had of any chen Ist or eruggist for a trifl ng sum, is a ipecdy and permanent cure I” With a j st sense of the respo slt'ilitie, I assume, I say I can. There does not ex st a case of ehionic salt rehum or ecze i a, tett r, ringworm,pemphigus,psoriasis, leprosy, lithe , prurigo, scald head, d ndruff, or itching, or scaly eruptions, or humors of the skin, scrip tnd I loo), that Cuticura, externally, assisted by the Cuticura Soap, and the Resolvent in erna'iy, may not specully, petnianemly, and eionomically cure, when all other rimedies and m tbodi of cure have uttely filled. I have pro ed, in h im rods of the most aggravated esses, thei ■ wonderful curative povv r, in ev deuce of which I submit the following remarkuble tcstiiLonia's: LEPRA AND SCROFULOUS HUMOR. Hiram E. Crrrentcr, Herdersoi, Jefferson Co., N. Y., cu ed of psoriisis or lep a, of twenty years' stimlirig. His case is so wonderful that I give his exact words: ‘ I h ve teen afflict d for twenty years with sn obstinate skin disease, cal cd by some M.D.’s psoriasis, ar.d others leprosy, coinmenc ng on my scalp, and in spite cf all I could do, with the h Ip of the most skillful doctors, it slowly I ut surely extended, until a year a.o this winter it covered my entire person in form of dry scales. For the last three years I have been unable to do any libor, and suffering intens, ly al the titre. Every morning there cou.d be nearly a dustpanfm o scales taken from theabieton my bed, s me of them half ns 'argc as the envelope conia ning this letter. Io the lat er part of winter my skin co ninenced cracking open. I tiiod everything, a most, that could bo tlioi ght of, wit: out any reli f. The 12th of Jure 1 started We t, in hopts I could tench the Hut Springs. I leached Detroit end was so low I thought I .-hould have t>go to t,.e hospital but finally g t ss far as Lauslog, Mich., where I h d a sister liv ng. One Dr. t eated mca'iout two weeks, but did tne no good. All thought I had but a short time to live. 1 e rnestly prayed to die. Cracked through the tkin allo .er my back, across my ribs, arms, band , limbs, feet badly swollen, toenails ca r.e iff, fin.er-neils dead and ha d as bone, bale dead, dry, and lifeless as o d straw. Oh, my God 1 how I did suffer. “My sister, Mrs. E. H. Davis, had a small part of a box of Cuticura in the house. She wouldn’t give up ; said. ‘ W < will try Cuticura.' Some was applbd on one bund and arm. Eurt ka ! there was relief; stopped the te> rible burning sensation f om the word go. Itiey immediately got the Resolvent, Cuticura, and Soap. I co nmeucea by taking one tibleipoonful of Resolvent thieo times a day, after mea's ; lad a bath cnce a day, water about blood hta>t; used Cuticura Soap freely; applied Cuticura u orningand evening. Result, returned to my bom? in jutt six weeks from time I left, and my skin as smooth'll, this sheet of paper. “HIRAM E. CARPENTER. “ Iltnderton, Jrfftrson County, N. F. “ S ' orn to before me this nineteenth day of January, 18e0. “A. M. Leefikowell, Justice of the Peace." Hon. 'William Taylor, Bosto- 1 , Mass., permanently cured of a humor ot the face end scalp (eczema) that had been tnated msec es lull/ for twelve yesri by many of Lesion's best phys clans and most notel specialists, as well as Eutopean authorities. He says: “ I hive been so e ated with o y successfu' use of ihe Cuticuia remedies shat I have itopped men in the streets to tell them of my case." ECZEMA RODENT, SALT RHEUM, ETC. Eczema Rodent. -F. H. Dake, Esq, agent for Harper nd Bro hers, Detioit, Mich., giv.s rn ast >i ishing account of Lis case (ec/ema rodent), whi-h ad teen ireaied by a cns Itnion of i hysicians without benefit, and w hich speecily yielded to the Cuticura reme les. Salt Rheum.—Will McDonald, ’Bl5 Butterfield Streit, Chicago, g atefully ac iiuwledges a cure of salt rheum o i h<ad, neck, face, arms and egs lor sev ntecn years ; not able to v ala except on hanils and kntes tor one year: not able to help himself tor eight years; tr.cd hundreds of remedies; doctors pronounced bis case hopeless; perman.n ly cu.ed by the Cuticura remedt s Psoriasis—Thomas De'aney, Memplii’, Tenn., afflicted with ps nas's Io nineteen yea s ; completely cure ! by Cu i ura'eni dies. Ringworm—Geo. W Brown, 43 Ma-shall Street, Providence, R. 1., lured of a lingwo m humor got at the bar'er's, whi h spread all ove- Ihe cars, neck, and face, and for fix years red ted all kinds of treatment; cured by Cuti.uia ;emedies. SKIN HUMORS, MILK CRUST. ETC. Skin Humor.—Mrs. S. E Whiaple, Decatur, M'cb., writes that her face, heal, and som paiti of lier tody were almost raw. ID-ailco ered ith sea s and sores Suffered fear ully, and tried eve.ything. Permanently cured by Cuticur i reme ies. Milk CitutT —Mrs. B )«ers, 113 Clinton Strret, Cincinnati. i pelira of her eistei’a child, who was cured of milk crust whi h re i-ted all remedies for two years. Now s fine, beal tv boy wi'h a beautiful head of hair. Tetter or the Hands.—Elizabeth Buckley, Litt'eten, N. IL, thank ully praises the Cuticura remedies for curing of tetter of the hands which had rendered them almost ueeless to her. BCALD HEAD, ALOPECIA, ETa Scald Head.—H. A Ra- mord. and Ito- F. W. J. A 8. K. R , Jackson, M ei., was cured of scald head of nine ye ra’ i.urat on by 'he Cuticuia remedies. Failing or the Hair.—F.ank a. Bean, Steam Fire Engine 6. Boston, was c red of alopecia or 'all ng of the hair by the Cutie ra remedies which rompletely rostored his hiir when all s id he would lo«e it. Dandrufe.—Thoma" Lee, 2.’76 Frankfo’d Ave, Philadet ihia, affl pted with da druff w'ich for twenty years hat cove e 1 his scalo with scales ore quarter of an inch in thickness, cu ed by the Cuticura rem’dles. His scalp is now free from dandruff, and as haslthy as it is possible for it to be. CHILDREN AND INFANTS. Fred. Rohrer, E q., Cashier Stock Growers’ National Bank, Pueblo, Colorado, writes: “I am so well pleased with its effects on my baby, that I cannut afford ’ole wlhout It tn uy h use. It is a wonderful cure, and is bound to became very popular as soon as its virtues are krown to the masees." J. S. Weeks, Esq., Town Treasur t, St. Albans, Vt., says in a letter dated May 28th: “ It w nks to a ch rm on my baby's face and hiad. Cured the head entirely and has ncarlv cleaned the free of rotes. I have recommended it to several, and Dr. Plant has ordered it for them." M. M Chick, Esq., 41 Franklin Street, Bos'on, says: “My little daughter, eighteen mon'hs old, bis what the doctors call eczema. We have tried almost everything. end at lost have used about a box of Cuticura, and she is almos’ a new child, and we fiel ve y happy." Chas. Eayre Hinkle, Jersey City Heights, N J., writes : “My son, a lad of twelve years, was completely cmed of s terrible case of eczema by the Cuticura temedles. From the top of his head to the roles oi his feet was cns mass of scabs. Every ether remedy and physician had bean tried in vain.” EVERY SPECIES OF SKIN DIREASE. It wonk, require every column of this paper to do justice to a description of the cures performed by the Cuticura remedies. Eczema of the palms of the hands and of the ends ot the fingers, veiy difficult to tiest and usually considered incurs' 1s; small patches of tetter and salt rheum cn the ears, nosi and sides of he face ; scald-heads with loss of hair without number ; heads covered with d-ndruff and scaly eruptions, especially of children and infants, many of which since birth bad b' en a mass of scabs; psoriasis, leprosy, and other frightful forms of skin diseases; scrofulous ulcers, o'd sores, and discharging wounds ; each and all of which have been speedily, permanently and economically cured by the Cuticura remedies. ▲ TRIUMPHANT RECORD. Of such a record the inventors of the Cutler* remedies m<y be Justly proud. They are a g and medical triumph; a triumph that wi'l be gra efuUy remembered by thousands long after the originators have passed away. To relieve and permanently cure diseases of ths skin and scalp w hich have be -n the torture of a lifetime, to rep'ace the rspulsive evidences of disease with ths glow of health, and thus render beautiful the face of man or woman, is to deserve the gratitude of mankind. That Cu'icura externally applied, with a proper use Of the Cuticura Boap, and the internal nse or the C rtlcu a Reso'vent. will cure speedily and permanently the worst lotms ol skin anu scuip <> oc*«fes, witn rosi oi hei-, I think I have fully demonstrated. Grand curative blesiings which may be had of any druggist at prfc'S within the reach of al', are thus substituted for deHh-dealing poisons. Mercury,arsenic, zinc, and leid, and a th usand and one other .revolting, polsoi.a ia, and senseless things must now sink into obscurity before'he wonderlul healing powers of the Cutieira reoiedles. M. E. JOBSELYN, M. D. Fort, April, 1830.