Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1880 — BEAUTY BUT SKIN DEEP. [ARTICLE]

BEAUTY BUT SKIN DEEP.

- • ->, - % ; —’ MLi g-SSSKSifig Sfcrtto Sgajhers. No l*dr afflicted with Herethestruggleto improve kertppetranoe ip renewed. No remedy is too repulsive or dangerous to be used. Arsenis to devoured In large quantities, mercury i« taken internally and applied externally, until the teeth rattle tn Thtiir loosened sockets, the system groans beneath the load of poisons it is 0r.«.« alight tkm blemishes, what must be the condition of those suffering from salt rheum, tetter, ringworm, pemphigus, psoriasis, leprosy, ttebsn, prurigo and scald head? Ho pan oaa fuliy describe the tortures they endure. Death in many eases might be considered a blessing. The burning beat, inflammation and Writing nearly Impel the sufferer to do violence to blmsen in order to end his suffer »I have seen patients tear their flesh their nails until the blood flowed in stveems. Others have told ms that they could out the flesh from their limbs, so great was Mom* tion on the construction and preservation of the skin, scalp, and hair, and the proper treatment of them when diseased, I have hare condensed to a popular form such Information as is most desired. THk poapTMPCTUM dr ran ski*. The skin is composed of two layers, whloh may be separated from sack other by the action of a blister. Tbs thin portion whloh Is raised up by the blister is called the scarf skin, the cuticle, or the epidermis; that which remains in connection with the body is the sensttfre akin, tha cutis, the derma, or the true skin. Bach has separate duties to perform. The scarf skin la horny and insensible, and serves as a sheath to protect tbs more sensitive skin under it. Were tha scarf skin taken off, we oouid not bear to have anything touch us. Tha derma or true akin, and its glands, oli tubes, etc., are the seat of all cutaneous diseases. TUB OIL AMD SWEAT OLARDS. That the skin stay be pliable and healthy it is necessary to have it oiled every day; and for this the Creator has Wisely provided by placing in the true skin small glands and tubes, whose efflee it is to prepare and pour out upon the snrfaoe the proper amount of OIL On some parts body they do not exist, but are Abundant on the faoe, nose, ears, head, eyelids, etc. They produce the wax of the ears, and on the head they open into the sheath of the hair, and furnish it with nature's own hair oil or pomade, when the skin is healthy, these little vessels are always at work, and constantly responding to the demands made upon them. Consequently no person should be afraid to wash thoroughly every day with soap and water, lest, as the “Boston Medical Journal” onoe taught, the skin be injured by baring the oil removed from it. FREQUENT WASHINGS WITH PURE BOAP (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 which depends a clear and wholesome complexion, than all the cosmetics in the world. So important is the free and perfect action of the sweat and fat or oil glands in the preservation of tbeaeneral health, as well as the special oondition of the skin, that particular attention to them will be rewarded hy Increased physical health. Ihey discharge upon the surface of the body about two and one-half pounds of matter per ‘day, and their Importance in the euriflcatlon of the blood and fluids of the body i so great that, were they closed by an impervious ooating. like rubber or oiled silk, death would soon ensue. THS GREAT SKIIt AND SCALP DISEASES. But bad as are minor forms of skin diseases, they sink into insignificance when compared with the great skin and scalp diseases with which thousands are afflicted during their whole lives. That the reader may know more about them, the principal affections are here named, omitting such as are symptoms of constitutional diseases, like measles, rash, etc. The moat important are salt rheum or eczema, tetter, ringworm, psoriasis, impetigo, leprosy, lichen, prurigo, barber's itch, Jackson’s itch, baker’s itch, ground itch, scald head and dandruff. Towering above all others in extent, in duration, in suffering. Is eczema, * commonly called salt rheum. Wilson divides it into twelve species and others into many mote; but it is sufficiently clear to tbs average reader, and will be recognized by Its small ■ watery blister, about the size of a pinhead, whenever seen. Prurigo, impetigo, and i aortas is are but little behind salt rheum in the suffering they cause. Scald bead Is another obstinate affection, defying all remedies, destroying the hair, and producing great misery and suffering. The scalp, like tne skin, is subject to salt rheum, tetter, dandruff, and other eruptive and scaly diseases, which generally destroy the hair follicles, and produce permanent baldness. THE TREATMENT of diseases of the akin or scalp has been for centuries based upon the mistaken theory that they are entirely due to some Impurity of the blood. No special attention has ever been directed to the Important part the sweat and fat glands play in the propagation and maintenance of disease. It is no unjust reflection upon the medical profession to say that its effoifs in the cure of skin diseases hava been a failure. What with mistaken theories, poisonous remedies, and blind adherence to methods and practices originating in ignorance snd superstition, salt rheum, scald head, and psoriasis flourish and increase upon systems shattered by the oopious use, both internal and external, of mercury, arsenic, sine, snd lead. Foroenturiesithas been the popular notion that diseases of the skin snd soaip must be cured, if oured at all, by purifying the blood. Admitting that this is partly true, what has been the method or what tne remedies by whloh it was sought to be accomplished? MERCURY AND ARSENIC. Putting aside the senseless “ sarsaparilla," “dock,!’ and “dandelion ” “blood purifiers,” and considering only those remedies that have received the sanction of physicians, hospitals and colleges, we find that mercury and arsenlo are the only medicinal agents of to-day, as they were hundreds of years ago, which are regarded by the “regular” as having specific medical properties for the purification of the blood, and hence the only remedies adapted to the treatment of skin and scalp diseases. THS TRUE THEORY. But a little light is being thrown upon the darkness that has surrounded the Intellect of the past. To a tew German and Frenoh physicians and specialists we owe what true progress we are making at the present time in the cure of obstinate affections of the skin snd scalp. They teach and prove, (1) that diseases of the skin and scalp are caused by a derangement of the secretory and excretory tubes and vessels of the true skin; and (2) that such diseases or affections are aggravated and maintained by poisonous fluids containing the virus of scrofula, malaria, or oontagious disease, which are discharged from the blood and circulating fluids upon the skin through the sweat and fat glands. From these facta they successfully maintain that skin diseases cannot be cured solely by internal remedies, nor solely by external remedies, but by a judicious use of both. These affections are not wholly caused by impurities of the blood and circulating fluids, nor gre they due entirely to a diseased condition of the sweat and fat glands, tubes, vessels, and cells of the true skin, but to a peculiar and inseparable eondlt lon of both. For If you treat the one to the neglect of the other, no progress Is made; but with attention to both at the same time, and the use of such remedies as I can here recommend, a cure is possible in nearly every case. ~ “ WHAT W 1 WAHT," said a distinguished authority on the skin, “ what we moat earnestly desire In order to cure obstinate skin and scalp affections, are three great remedies, with as many specific properties, namely: “ 1. An Internal remedy possessing cathartic, tonic, and alterative properties, which will enable it to expel through the natural purifiers of the body, viz., the lungs, liver, kidneys, bowels, and skin, the constitutional poison which floats in the blood and circulating fluids of the body. “ *. An external unchangeable application of Jelly consistence that, may arrest Inflammation or irritation and destroy fungus or parasitlc KTOwtha: and, “K An emollient and healing soap, free from caustic alkalies and Irritating properties, for cleansing diseased surfaces, and partaking, in a milder farm, the medicinal properties of the external application. > “ With three such remedies as I oonoeive it possible to prepare, but which Ido not now know to exist, 1 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 toward physicians who adhere to practices at-varianee with reason and common sense, and, withal, lamentable failures I here assert that no ointment, salve, cerate,, lotion, or compound, for external applloation, nor alterative, or “blood purifier, * for internal use, to be found in the materia medica of the schools and colleges of medicine—and there are thousands of them—will certainly cure a ease of 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 A Potter, Bg£S 2? fSZigSi been experimenting with medicinal agents,' ■ and had obtained—mostly from substances remedies, which they believed to be sn infallible cure for every kind of skin, soaip and blood disease, from salt rheum to dandruff, whether caused by a scrofulous or dlseaam, tainted Mood, or hy a morbid oondition of the glands, tubes, vessels and oaUaof the true •kin, or both! 1 wf* gratified beyond measure. As my Ufa has been and is devoted to the treatment of skin and scalp diseases, to which. I have given much study and attention, t eagerly embraced the opportunity afforded me by. Messrs, weeks h Potter, to make a thorough test of these- remedies in my prentice, determined, if successful, to give them such pnblloity as tbeir merits entitled them to. This 1 now do after, two years of extraordinary success with them, with the object of thereby lessening, as far as in my power, the great suffering caused by tha diseases under oomi ilar ■ tkm, nSEStR&SS&'&B&gXSiSI s

tioiu tluu have been the torture of a ufetima, s.iiri.’23r«, o sjffisr , £r2M; E£#3£E: taa? ar.j’ia^fefaraaa; in afiy riimatA “ftwHUre'm^reLZ 1 tSZSZ. •Dotklor «*<< tMitny fifty j ear* heaoe m ft hi to-day. Contrast tala with the horrible solves and oiittmeote of the present tlmel the Cuticura MedtaUßaTToUet Boot*, rwdm fte durtcteriafo same from the remedy to whloh ft owes tts valuable healing and useful propeztlea It is free from caustic- alkalies, and is of a delicate, natural green eolor. Its emollient, soothing and healing action la the Sea Cutioura, in a modified form.: Aside its medicinal properties, ft la more vola a toilet, bath and nursery sanatire than S other soap. It cleanses, soothes, whitens, beautifies the skin, had la a natural preventive of Injury to the oomplexloa and hands from the bests of summer and the chills of winter. An ounoe of prevention is nowhere rewarded with more pounds of curd than In the care of the skin, and no remedy or method is more appropriate than the Cuticura Soap. It dissolves sway undue exudation of greasy matter from the oil glands, which eauses the skin to shine, prevents clogging of the pores and tubes, ana stimulates the olrouiotfon of the blood through the small blood vessels, giving color, freshness, and beauty to the eompmaton, amply repaying every moment of care. This soap Is also specially prepared for shaving, and Is called Cuticura Medicinal Shaving Soap, and will be found es great value by gentlemen entering from tender. Inflamed or diseased skin. ■. THS THTKO great remedy submitted to me is called the Cuticura Resolvent, because of its intimate' relation to Cuticura In the cure of skin and scalp diseases. Of all the remedies for the purification of the btoed and circulating Holds that I have ever tested, none approach in specific medical action the wonderful properties of the Resolvent. In forty m.nutea after taking the first dose it may be detected by ohemioal analysis In the saliva, sweat, fat and blood. Showing that It has entered the blood and circulating fluids, and made the entire circuit of the human labyrinth many times. Chemical : tests 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 of the circulating fluids, enabling it to traverse every diseased cell, tube and vessel of the skin, and leave Us wholesome constituents upon the surface of the body. But It does more than this. It Is a powerful purifying agent and fiver stimulant. It neutralises and te-olves away blood poisons, caused by the virus of scrofula, eanoer, canker, malarial or contagious diseases. It destroys microsoopio Insects or pai asltes which Infest the water and air of malarial regions, and breed many forms of skin diseases. It regulates the stomach and bowels, and perfects digestion so as to admit of a rapid iucrease of wholesome .tissue and strength. Henoe its power to eliminate from the system all the destructive elements that foster and maintain diseases of the blood, skin aod scalp. t Having been charmed with the results of my analysis of these great remedies, my next step was to demonstrate their value in the treatment of the great skin, scalp and blood affections usually considered incurable. 1 know that every word I now wr*te WILL AWAKEN HOPE in the breast of many a fife long sufferer. Can I, In a broad and Christian -pirit, without prejudice, without reservation, say to those afflicted: “Here in these great natural remedies, which may be had or my obemist or druggist for a trlning sum, is a speedy and permanent ourer* with a just of the responsibilities I assume, i say I can. There does not exist a oase of ohronio 'salt rheum or eczema, tetter, ringworm, pemphigus, psoriasis, leprosy, lichen, prurigo, scald head, dandruff, or itching or scaly eruptions or humors of the skin, scalp aud blood, that Cuticura, externally. assisted by the Cutioura Soap, and the Resolvent internally, may not speedily, permanently and economically cure, when all other remedies and methods of pure have utterly failed.- 1 have proved, in hundreds of the most aggravated cases, their wonderful curative power, In evidence of which I submit the following remarkable testimonials. LEPRA Ain> SCROFULOUS HUMOR. Hiram E. Carpenter, Henderson, Jefferson Co., N. Y., cured of psoriasis or lepra of twenty years’ standing. His case is so wonderful that 1 give his exact words. “Fhave been afflicted fortwenty years with an obstinate skin disease, oalled by some M. D.’s psoriasis, and others, leprosy, commencing on my scalp, and la spite of all I ooulddo, with the help of the most skillful dootors, it slowly but surely extended, until s year ago this winter It covered my entire person in form of dry scales. For the last three years I have been unable to do any labor, and suffering Intensely all the time. Every morning there oould be nearly a dustpanful of scales taken from the sheet on my bed, some of them half as Large as the envelope containing this letter. 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 I started West, in hopes I oould reach the Hot Springs. I reached Detroit and was so low 1 thought I should have to go to the hospital, but finally fit u 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 ail over my back, across my ribs, arms, hands, limbs, feet badly swollen, toenails came off, fingernail* dead and hard as bone, hair dead, dry and lifeless as. old straw. Oh, my Godl how 1 did suffer. “ My sister, Mrs. E. H. Davis, had a small part of a box of Cutioura in the house. She wouldn't give up: said, ‘ We will try Cutioura.’ Some was applied on one hand aud arm. Eureka 1 there was relief; stopped the terrible burning sensation from the word go. They immediately got the Keeolvent, Cuticura ana Soap. I commenced by taking one tabletpoonful of Resolvent three times a day, after meals; had a bath once a day, water about blood heat; used Cuticua Soap freely; applied Cuticura morning and evening. Result, returned to my home in just six weeks from time I left, and my skin as smooth as this sheet of paper. “ Hiram E. Carpenter. “Henderson, Jefferson County, N. Y. “Sworn to before me this nineteenth day of January, 1880. A. M. Leffingweuu, „ _ “ Justice of the Peace." Hon. William Taylor, Boston, Masa, permanently cured of a humor of the face and scalp (eosemai that had been treated unsuooesslully for twelve yeais by many of Boston’s best physicians and most noted specialists, as well as European authorities. He says: “I have been sc elated with my successful use of the Cutioura remedies that 1 have stopped men in the streets to tell them of my oase.'’ ECZEMA rodent; BALT KHBtJM, BTC. Eczema Rodent. —F. H, Drake, Esq., agent for Harper and Brothers, Detroit, Miok., gives an astonishing account of his case (eczema rodent), which had been treated by a consultation of physiolans without benefit, and which speedily yielded to the Cuttcara remedies. Salt Rheum.— Will McDonald, 1315 Butterfield Street, Chicago, gratefully acknowledges a cure of salt rheum on head, neck, face, arms, and legs for seventeen years; not able to walk except on hands and kne-'s for one year; not able to help himself for eight years; tried hundreds of remedies; dootors pronounced his case hopeless; permanently cured by the Cuticura remedies. Psoriasis —Thomas Delaney, Memphis, Tenn., afflicted with psoriasis for nineteen years; completely cured by Cuticura remedies. Rtnyworm.— Geo. W. Brown, 48 Marshal) Street. Providence, R. 1., cured of a ringworm humor gi t at the barber's, which spread air over the tars, neck, and face, and for six years resisted all kinds of treatment; cured by Cutioura remedies. SKIN HUMORS, MILK CRUST, BTC. . Shin Humor.- Mr*. 8. E. Whipple, Decatur, Mich., writes that her face, head and some parts of her body were almost raw. Head covered with scans and sores. Suffered fearfully, and tried everything. Permanently cured by Cuticura remedies. MUk < ru»t. —Mra, Bowers, 148 Clinton Street, Cincinnati, speaks of her sister's child, who was cured of mils crust whloh resisted all remedies tor two years. Now a fine, healthy boy, with a beautiful head of hair. Tetter of the Hoads.—Elisabeth Buckley, Littleton, N. H., thankfully praises the Cuticura remedies lor curing of tetter of the hands which had rendered them almost useless to her SCALD HEAD, ALOPSCI A, ETC. / Scold Head.—H. A. Raymond, auditor F. W., J. AS. R. R., Jackson, Mich., was cared of scald head of nine years’ duration by the Cuticura remedies. Falling of the Hatr.— Frank A. Bean, Steam Fire Engine 6, Boston, was cured of alopocia or falling of the hair by the Cuticura remedies, which completely restored his hair when all said he would lose it. Dandruff.—Thomas Lee. 878 Frankford Ave., Philadelphia, afflicted with dandruff which for twenty years had oovered his scalp with scales one quarter of an Inch in thickness, cured by the Cuticura remedies. His scalp is now free from dandruff, and as healthy as it is possible for it to be. ". CHILDREN AND INFANTS. Fred Kohrer, Esq., Cashier Stock Growers' National Bank, Pueblo, Colorado, writes: “I am so well pleased with its effects on my baby, that I cannot afford to be without it <n my house. It Is a wonderful cure, and is bound to bcoome very popular as soon as Its virtues are known to the masses.” J. S. Weeks, Esq., Town Treasurer, St. Albans, Yt., says In a letter dated May 28: “It works to a charm on my babrs face and bead. Cured the head entirely, and has nearly cleaned the sane of sores. Jfiave recommended it to several, and Dr. Plant has ordered It for them.” M. M. Chick, Eeq„ 41 Franklin Street, Boston. says: “My little daughter, eighteen months old. has what the doctors call eczema. We have tried almost everything, and at last have used about a box of Cutioura, and she ft almost a new child, and we feel very (Sea. Eayre Hinkle, Jersey City Heights, N. J., writes: “My son, a lad of twelve years, was completely cured of a terrible oaae off eczema by the Cuticura remedies. From the top of his head to the soles of bis feet was one mass of scabs. Every other remedy and physician had been tried In vain.” EVERT SPECIES OF SKIM DISEASE. It would require every column of this paper to do just toe to a description of the cures performed by the Cutioura remedies. Eczema of the palms of the bands and of the ends of the fingers, very difficult to treat and usually considered incurable; smalt patches of tetter and salt rheum oh toe ears, nose, and sides of the face: soald-feads with loss of heir without number; bjads oovered with dandruff and

f»Vi rflHfnrf am! BArmftnMitJv aiipa diMiffinfi of tfce akin and scalp which have been the torevidence* of disease with the glow otCSS and thus render beautiful the fees es man or woman, is to dneervs the gratitude of nuJ1&22$ n &e e &£S£ carnal use of the Cutieura Resolvent, will cure and worettoemsot think Iha vo fully domonst ■ a tod, Qrasd cura Mveblßsslngsare tjus substituted tehsfih taed!^i/a*tboUßan<inS!fooe , mher’revcSttng, poisonous end senseless things must now sink Into obscurity before the wooderful healing powers of the Cuticura remedies.

M. E. JOSSELYN, M. D.

New York, Aprfl, lSßtt.