Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1892 — JOHN H. WOODBURY’S PARLORS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JOHN H. WOODBURY’S PARLORS

A^ e S rt ? tlo !S. ar IS PMfined by Uie I r ea <llii < J>«y l n >tol l , t of Amer _ zsftGisxr*: Softened by Electrolysis; Murk* Disappear from the Touch of His Magic Hsad. Physicians throughout the country are gradually beginning to give more and more attention to the subject of dermatology A few years ago It was a very popular belief that a birthmark could by no possible means be eradicated from the skin We have only to go back a very short time to recall drs.ihas In which the villain was tracked from town to town and eventually handed over to outraged justice through a scar or birthmark which revealed his Identity. A drama bullton such a foundation would meet with well-merited ridicule to-day.' The villain would not be such a fool as to permit a facial disfigurement to advertise his personality. He would make short work of it by having It removed, and his changed appearance would then provo Bis Impenetrable disguise. In ten days A -person - afflicted with a mortifying birthmark, with pimple or red nose, could have any one of these disfigurements completely removed. The science of dermatology has not advanced at a snail’s pace. It has run the race of the hare, but has not

paused within sight of the goal."'Able physicians have brought to this science all" the wealth of their experience and knowledge, and if any one suffers td-day through facial blemish, It Is his or her own fault. ! Foremost among the who have made undeniable triumphs In dermatology is John 11. Woodbury,

; whose magnificently furnished parlors at No. 125 West Forty-second street, New York City, are daily filled with people who apply to him for lelief from birthmarks, moles, superfluous hair on the face and kindred disfigurements. Prof. Woodbury Is really the dermatologist of to-day. He is tho Inventor of Dormaform, which is sold to physicians only. He Is also the inventor of Woodbury’S Facial Soap for the skin, scalp, and complexion, which is for sale by all druggists; also tho inventor of several facial appliances, which are patented at Washington. There are eminent medical practitioners In New York Who stand in the front rank as specialists in rheumatism, consumption, etc., but there Is none holding a higher place among those treating skin diseases than Prof. Woodbury. Many ire-hods of removing facial disfigurements were tried beforo Prof. Woodbury sojvcd the riddle. This physician treated the blood, this one used his scalpel, and another a useless powder. Prof. Woodbury revolutionized the science. He advanced the extremely radical opinion that birthmarks or moles should be treated by penetration; that they could be reduced to such! a state that they would take on a scab, aud that when the scab fell the birthmark, or whatever tho disfigurement might be, would neco3sarily disappear! This was a sweeping declaration.' and old forms and practices were Skittered by it. Yet it was a true solution, of the riddle. He uses no scalpel, nothing more than a harmless lotion, which changes the birthmark into an ordinary scab. Many of the most eminent society people of tho metropolis, who had been for years debarred (rom public life through a disfigurement of the face, testify every day to the success of the Professor’s methods. There is no physician in this country who has not some time or other attempted to remove a facial blemish, but where Is there one who can show such a record of uninterrupted success in m doing as Prof. Woodbury? He does not : keep a record! of all the epistles ho receives testamentary of his Skill as a dermatologist. 'J here Is one letter, from a prominent New Jersey banker, which is worthy of especial consideration, since it shows the deep interest of the writer in the physician , who cured him. Ti.e banker, after reciting, liko hundreds of other correspondents, had been cured of several very ugly marks on his face, suggested that the Professor write a book on Dermatology. He says he could not do a hotter thing for humanity. His volume would arouse public in terest In the groat science, and who have for years believed that they must live all their life with a crimson birthmark on their face*'would take courage and no doubt eventually ho relieved of their blemishes. The banker Is not, however, aware that Prof. WooilburylEias already written a very Instructive treatise ot 145 pages on the subject, and which any ! one may obtain by remitting 10 cents to his address. Prof. Wcodbury’s fame-has now become so well established that he Is busy with his patients day in and day out and can give no further time to literary work. Ho Is the President of the Dermatological Institute, No. 125 West Forty-second street, New York City, which Is tho largest establishment of the kind in the world.

OPERATING ON THE FACE.