Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-20
The Laws of sHeaItED-Trea1me
of the Skin and Hair. -

4 ska Oh Gne Skin and HAIR - =.
On Saturday evening DR.. Hebbard de-
/ livered the sixth lecture of his course of
fourteen on Human Improvement" at
Cooper Institute, New York. These lee
| lures are amusing and instructive, and
| should be heard by all who wish to pre-
| serve good health. The subject of the lee
| ture on Saturday was Z" The Skin and HaiT;n'
which the Doctor treated substantially as
| follows: There are 600 600, 600 cells in the
lungs that, if spread out, would cover a
surface. seven times as large as the human
| body, and the membrane lining the intes-
| final canalis three times as large, These
| two synpatlIiZe with one another; a chill
upon the outside is rejected upon the in
side, and Group Ydiptheria, lung fever, ETC.,
are the result. hIndigesttble food irritating
the stomach and mucuS coatings will be
reflected upon the outside, and humorS of
various Kinds win be the result. All ladies
who would have fair skins cannot be too
careful of their digestion. The skin has
three ayers-the cuticle, the rete neucoSuns
and the cuts uerd. From the cutice or OUT
side layer grows the hair. The hair is
cylindrical, and is filledup with pigments
from the blood. If the blond is poor the
hair is Liable to come out. Good digestion.
is necessary to a good growth of hair
Hair comes out after a fever because the
blood is Impoverished, Hair tonics Willnot
restore the hair, Cleanse the hair with the
white of an egg and water. To stop the
hair from falling off use one grain of tartar
emetic to eight ounces of water. Manipu-T
late the head often to keep the blood in the
scalp. By no manner OF means should
should always be avoided, as it eats
the albumen that composes the OUT
er skin. Corns are cured by applying a
salve made of equal parts of shaving from
bar soap and powdered sal soda. The sec
ond layer-the rete naucosun-is interesting
as the seat of the color of the skin. The
third layer is the true skin. and is therefore,
called the cutis Uerd. When boiled it makes
glue; when tanned, leather. 1t is full of
blood-vessels, that, if all were rolled into a
mass, would be larger than the heart itself,
and so full of nerves, that all put together
would make mass larger than the brain.
Therefore the vast Importance of this Or
gan, and hence the philosophy of external
applicatlons-as steam, water, the human
hand, sc. Through all this network runs
,perspiratory tubes, of which there are over
100000, or % miles of pores, through which
pass five out of seven pounds of all the i'm
purities of the blood. If these are closed,
these impurities remain in the blood, and
break out in the shape of pimples, humors,
&C., on the skin, or fasten upon the glands,
the lungs, and other internal organs. Hence
the necessityof bathing. All people ought
to bathe every morning, both for health
and cleanliness. There is no occasion for
giving children cream of tartar or brim-
stone to physic out the blood, if they are
kept clean. On the prominent parts of the
face, in the fleXions of the joints, in the
arm-pits, &C., are little oil wells called
se6acious follicleS, which secrete from the
blood an oil with which to lubri-
cate these parts. If this is not washed off
it will become rancid, concrete and foul.
Hence the demand for perfumery. God
made man and woman for the sunlight.
Thousands of women. are dying for the
want of this element. He made them also
for the air, and therefore women as we'll as
men should be in it most of the time. We
breathe. one-eighth as much through the
skin as by the lungs; therefore the clothing
should be as porous as possible, so as to adj
nit the atmospheric air to the skin. Cloth
ing should be washed often, and that used
through the day should not be used in the
night time. Sleeping rooms should be ele-
waited, and exposed to the sunlight and air
at least four or five hours in the morning.
Sun baths and air baths daily were advisa-
BILE. DIR. Franklin was in the habit of TAX
ing an air bath when restless az nights.
These were advised, instead of narcotics,
for sleepless persons. Place thermometer
under the arms of an adult person, and it
will run up to SO degrees; this is the aver
age the world over. Under the arms of
children or old people it will run up to
only 80 degrees, or less. Therefore children
and old people should be dressed warmer
than the middle aged. Mothers, not un-
derstanding this fact, dress their little ones
insufficiently, and, exposing them to the
cold northeasters, are surprised and agon-
lied by "midnight cries." Diptheria,
Group, &C., lay their cold hands upon them
thus exposed, and when these beautiful
buds are transplanted, to bloom in the
Savior's garden above, these poor ignorant
mothers say: ''The Lord gave, and the
Lord hath taken away" No; this is the
g slaughter of the innOcents." The ravages
OF cholera are a cipher compared to this.