Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-12
BEAUTY BUT SKIN Deep
How to Beautify, How to Preserve, and
How to Treat when Diseased,
the Skin and Scalp.
by VI, r.. ,JOSSELYN, Nj. d., OF New y fk.

taat to obtain fair skin and uxuriant tresses she
would gladly exchange the Designations that now mar
her otherwise handsome faoe hands, or hair Tor other
diseasesef greater danger-couid their
existence be concealed from the public eye Many
an estimable ladys life has been embttered by cuta-
neousaffecions. She naagines that every one sees
and comments upon her looks. She avoids society
and rublic places and endeayors to hide her misery
in secusion. Here the struggle to improve her ap-
peaeance is renewed No remedy is too repulsive or
dangerous to be used. Arsenic is devoured IN large
quantities. mercury MS taken internally and applied
externally until the teeth rattle in their loosened sock
els and the system the load oil po1sons
it is obliged to carry.
If such be the feelingsof one afflicted with slight
skin blemshes, what must be the condition of these
suffering from salt rheusn, letter, ring worm, penn
phigus psoriasis, eprosy, lichen, prurgo, and scald
head? No pen fully describe the fortunes they en-
dure. Death in many cases might be considered a
blessing. The burning heat, Inflammation and itch
ing nearly iupe the sufferer to do violence to him.
self in order 10 end his sufferings. have pa
ents tear their flesh with their nails until the blood
could cut the flesh from their limbs, great was the
agony they endured.
With view to impart some useful information on
the construction and preservation of the skn scalp
and hair, and the proper treatment of them when
diseased, have here condensed to popular form
such information as is most desired.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SKIN.
The skin is composed of two layers, which may be
separated from each other by the action of blister
The thin norton which is raised up by the blister is
called the scarf en the cuticle, or the epidermis
that which remains in connection with the body is
the sensitive skin, the cults, the derma, or the true
skin Each has separate duties to perform. The
scarf skin is horny and insensible, and serves
sheath TO protect the sensitive skin under it.
We're the scarf skin taken of could not bear to
have anything touch us. The deIna true skin,
and its glands oil tubes, etc. the seat of all cuta
neouS' diseases.
THE OIL AND SWEAT GLANDS.
That the skin may be piable and healthy it is
sy to have it oiled every day. and for this the Crea-
has idnd IIr he tlJa
small glands and tubes, whose office it is to prepare
an6 pour out upon the surface the proper amount of
oil. On parts of the body they do not exist but
abundant on the face nose, ears, head, eyeilds
etc They produce the Max of the ears, and on the
head they open into the sheath of the hair and fur
nish it with natures own hair oil or ponade 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
taught, the skin be injured 10y having the oil
removed from it.
FREQUENT WASHINCS WITH PURE SOAP
free from caustic akalies) and uAewarm water fol-
lowed by brisk rubbing with towel, will do
to preserve the healthy action of the oil glands
and tubes upon which depends clear and whole
some 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 the
general health, well as the SPECIAL condition of the
skin, that particular attention to them will be re-
warded by increased physical health. They dis
charge upon the surface the body about two and
one-hah pounds of matter per day, and their impor
lance in the publication Of the blood and fluids of
the body is SO great that were they closed by al i'm
pervious coating, like rubber CT oiled silk, death
would soon ensue.
THE GREAT SKIN AND SCALP DISEASES.
But bad as arc minor forms of skin diseases they
/ sink into insignifcance when compared with the
great skin and scalp diseases with which thousands
afflicted during their whole lives. That the
reader may know more about them, the principal
affections here named, emitting such as are
| symptoms of constitutional diseases, like measles
rash, etc. The most important salt rheum or &c
zena, letter, ring wor psoriasis, impego, leprosy
lichen, prlrigo harbers Itch JacEsons itch bakers
itch, ground itch, scald head and dandruf.
Towering above all others in extent, in duration
in suffering. is
ECZEMA,
commonly caued salt rheum Wilson divides it into
twelve Species and others into many more: but it is
sufficiently clear to the average reader and viii be
recognized by its small watery blister about the szc
Of pinhead VIII rever seen. Prurigo, impetigo and
psoriasis but little behind salt rheum in the suf
fering they Scald head is another obstinate
affection defy1ng all remedies. DESTROYING the hair
and producing great misery and suffering. The
scalp, ike the skin; is subject to salt Jheun, letter
/ dandruff, and other erupive and scaly diseases
which generally destroy the hair foicles, and pro
| duce permanent badness.
THE TREATMENT
diseases of the skin or scalp has been for centuries
based upon the mistaken theory that they entirely
due to inpUrity OF the blood No special atten.
ton has ever been directed to the important part the
sweat and fat glands play in the propagation and
! maintenance of disease.
1t is unjust reflection upon the medical profes-
sion to say that its efforts in the OF skin diseases
have been a failure. What with mistaken theories
poisonous remedies, and blind adherence to methods
and practices originating in ignorance and superst
ton, salt rheum, scald head, and psoriasis flourish
and increase upon the systems shattered by the
copous use, both internal and external, of mercury
arsenic, zinc and lead.
For centuries ii has been the popular notion that
re he ifcl1r
at all, by purifying the blood.
Admitting tRat-tl1s is partly true, what has been
the method what the remedies by which it was
sought to be accomplished?
MERCURY AND ARSENIC.
Putting aside thes enseless ..sarsaparia" dock
and g dandehon' s' blood purifiers and consider
ing only those remedies that have received the sane
ton OF physicians hospitals, and colleges, find
that mercury and arsenic are the only medicinal
agents Of to-day, they hundreds of years ago.
(which regardedby the Irregular as having spe-
enc medical properties for the publication of the
treatment OF skin and scalp diseases.
| THE TRUE THEORY.
But little light is being thrown upon the darkness
lat has surrounded the intellect of the past. To
| few German and French ply icans and specialists
4 We owe what true progress arc making at the
present time in the of obstinate affections of the
skin and scalp They teach and prove a. that dis
eases Of the skin and scalp caused by derange-
ment of the secretory and ecretor tubes andvesses
of4he true skin; and{2 that such diseases or affec-
/ tions aggravated and maintained by poisonous
fluids containing the virus of scroEula, malaria
contagious disease, which discharge led from the
blood and circulating fluids upon the skin through
thesseat and fat glands From these facts they sue
cessfuy maintain thatsk diseases cannot be cured
solely by internal remedies, solely by external
remedies, but by jndicious of bath. these af-
fectiens are not wholly caused by impurities of the
blood and circulating fluids, Ii sy due entire
y to- diseased condition Of the sweat and fat glands
tubes vessels, md cells OF the true sin, but to
peculiar and inseparabes condition 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 hfse, and the Of such remedies as I can
case.
"WHAT WE GVANT,'
said distinguished authority the skin, -swhat we
most earnestly desire in ordero obstinate skin
and scalp affections, three great remedies with
as many specific properties, namely
81 An Internal remedy possessing cathartic,
tonic ard Alternative properties (which will enable il
to expo Through the natural Purifiers of the body,
Wis., the lungs liver, kidneys, bowels and SKIN the
constitutional poison which floats in the blood and
circulating fluids of the body.