Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-08-12
Kid and Leather Gloves.

FRANCE and Belgium are, par excellence
the countries of all others where kid and
leather gloves are manufactured and
worn. 1t is quite appropriate, therefore
that any warning in reference to theiI
use should come from that same quarter
lest 1t might be supposed, were the argu-
ment put forth elsewhere, that 1t was ga
weak device of the enemy" 1t is with
some curiosity and interest, then, that
the world of readers and glove wearers
will read the comments that a certain
DR.. Fortin, of Paris, writing to the NgdrO,
of that city, makes on the effects of tight
gloves, although, such is the peculiar
perversity of human nature, that we
doubt much whether the slightest differ
ence will result in the consumption of the
article, from all that may be said about it.
In brief, the Doctor remarks that the
use of gloves made from the skins of ami
mails is attended by notable dangers
They were introduced, in their finer
qualities, into France by the Medici
family, and eince then the hands If the
higher classes have lost much of their
purity and beauty of contour. 1t is not
difficult to comprehend that the con-
tinuous and violent compression of the
hand must disturb its organism, and de-
sense OF touch. But all the difficulty
does not cease at that point, by any
means. Anatomists can tell US that an
interchange of two kinds of blood, the
venous and the arterial, takes place at
the ends of the fingers, as we'll as else
where, and that anything which inter
rupts the process produces reaction
toward the heart-the hollow muscle that
Is the projecting and propelling organ of
circulation.
An organic predifposition cooperating
with this disorder may develop certain
diseases of the heart, or aggravate those
that previously existed. There are, also,
certain nervous operations at the ex-
tremities which communicate sensations
to the brain, and auy obstacle opposed to
this action of nature may originate q
variety of symptoms ranging from mere
weakness to regular nervous crisis.
Tight gloves of kid or other skin, by
their adhesion to the surface, frequently
produce sort of abscess or ulcer, which
appears under the nails. In such cases,
puncturing the flesh, or even leaving it to
the process of nature, will lead to the loss
of the nails, which cannot, afterward, be
easily renewed. To young ladies, such
an accident is very trying, But there is
pLCCaublOu budL HAY D6 bhk6u against
this deformity. 1t consists simply in
scraping the nail with the blade of a
sharp knife rounded to the end. The
scraping must be done near to the seat
of the abscess or Inflammation. The pus
once being removed, the small orihce pro-
duced by this process will soon disappear,
without leaving any trace. But ON the
general principle, in order to reconcile
those two sworn enemies health and
fashion-all prolonged pressure at the eI.
tremities must be avoided, especially in
the case of children, and of young girls
who have not attained their full growth
and development.
II seems that in France, q prolonged
series Of experiments and investigations
has been made, and that DR.. FOrtin mere
ly gives the result in what Is not, at all, a
new theory, but claims to be distinct
enunciation of surgical truth and these
views have attracted a corresponding de.
gree of attention. 1t seems unquestiona-
BILE that, where they are not deformed by
sordid toll, the hands of those who do not
make continual use of the article in ques-
ton are more shapely and delicate in per-
ceptive touch than those of persons who
are descended from race that have been
able to use the kid or other skin glove
habitually. One is often surprised to see
what beautiful hands the children of the
poor classes possess, Notwithstanding the
laborious pursuits OF their parents, and
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