Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1911 — HIRAM CARPENTER’S WONDERFUL CURE OF PSORIASIS. [ARTICLE]

HIRAM CARPENTER’S WONDERFUL CURE OF PSORIASIS.

*T have been afflicted for twenty years with an obstinate skin disease, called by some M. D.’s. psoriasis, and others leprosy, commencing on my scalp; and In spite of all I could do, with the help of the most skilful docJ tors, it slowly-but surely extended unrvjtil a year ago this winter it covered ®my entire person in the form dry scales. For the last three years I have been unable to do any labor, and suffering intensely all the time. Every morning there would be nearly a dustpanful of scales taken from the sheet on my bed, some of them half as large as the envelope containing this In the latter part of winter my skin commenced cracking open. I tried everything, almost, that could be thought of, without any relief. The 12th of June 1 started West, in hopes I could reach the Hot Springs. I reached Detroit and was so low I .thought I Bhould have to go to the hospital, but finally got as far as Lansing, Mich., where I had a sister living. One Dr. treated me about two weeks, but did me no good. All thought I had but a short time to live. I earnestly prayed to die. Cracked through the skin all over my back, across my ribs, arms, hands, limbs; feet badly swollen; toe-nails came off; finger-nails dead and hard as a bone; hair dead, dry and lifeless as old straw. Omy God! how I did suffer. ' “My sister wouldn’t give up; said, We will try Cuticura.’ Some was applied to one hand and torn. Eureka! burning sensation from the word go. They immediately got Cuticura Resolvent, Ointment and Soap. I commenced by taking Cuticura Resolvent three- time a day after meals; had a bath once a day, water about blood heat; used. Cuticura Soap freely; applied Cuticura Ointment 'morning and evening. Result: returned to my home in Just six weeks from the time I left, and my sjcin as smooth as this sheet of paper. Hiram B. Carpenter, Henderson, N. Y.” The above remarkable testimonial was written January 19, 1880, and is republished because of the permanency of the cure. Under date of April--22, 1910, Mr. Carpenter wrote from his present home, 610 Walnut St. So., Lansing, Mich.:. ‘1 have never suffered a return of the psoriasis and although many years have passed I have not forgotten the terrible suffering I endured before using the Cuticura Remedies.”