Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1871 — Dip your Razors in Warm Water. [ARTICLE]

Dip your Razors in Warm Water.

Recently says the London Medical Prett, we have professionally seen two of the worst cases of Sycasig Contagionm which have ever come under our notice. Both patients were shaved by ■ the same barber, and no doubt by the same razor as that used—for the barber acknowledges his fault—in shaving “a man with a bad chin.” In one patient the yellowish scales have extended to the upper lip and sides of the face covered by Lair. The vegetable nature of the disease, and the rapidity with which the seeds are transmitted from part to part, until the cryptogamic plant surrounds every hair follicle, is only too well known for repetition here. Our chief object in directing public attention to a most serious matter is, that barbers will learn, through us, to be more careful in indiscriminate shaving, and that the

public, seeking their aid will, for its own sake, insist upon what we hope will now become an universal practice in the barber shop, namely: the immersing the razor In warm water belbre applying it to the face. This is pretty sure to destroy the vegetable organism, should any exist, on the Instrument. The transmission by contagion of sycosis, from the use of a razor employed in shaving an affected person has been repeatedly noted.