The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-04-24

apuhuant on the race, nose, ears, head, eve
| mas etc. They produce the wax of the ears
and on the head they open into the sheath Of
| the hair, and furnish it with natures own hair
OIL or pomade. When the skin is healthy these
| little vessels are always at work, and constant
| ly responding to the demands made upon
them. Consequently no person should be
afraid l 70 wash thoroughly every day with soap
MAJ once taught, the skin be injured by hay-
ing the oil removed from it.
FREQUENT WASHINGs WITH PURE SOAP
| free from caustic alkalies) and lukewarm
water, followed by brisk rubbing with coarse
towel, will do more to preserve the healthy ac-
ton OF the oil glands and tubes, upon which
depends a clear and wholesome complexion,
than all the cosmetics in the world. So inn
portaut is the free and perfect action of the
sweat and fat or oil glands in the preservation
OIL the general health, as well as the special
condition of the skin, that particular attention
to them will be rewarded by increased physical
health. They discharge upon the surface of
the body about two and one-half pounds Of
matter per day, and their Importance in the
publication of the blood and fluids of the body
is so great that, were they closed by an imper-
vious coating, like rubber or oiled silk, death
would soon enSue.
THE GREAT SKIN AND. SCALP DISEASES.
But bad as are minor forms of skin diseases,
they sink into insignificance when compared
with the great skin and scalp diseases with
which thousands are afflicted during their
whole lives. That the reader may know more
about them, the principal affections are here
named, emitting such as are symptoms of con-
Stitutional diseases, like measles, rash, etc.
The most important are salt rheum or eczema,
letter ringworm, psoriasis, impetigo, leprosy,
lichen, prurgo BARRIERS itch, Jackson's itch,
bakers itch, ground itch, scald head and dam
druf.
Towering above all others in extent, in dura-
ton, in suffering, is
ECZEMA,
commonly called 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 size of a pinhead,
whenever seen. Prurigo, impetigo, and psorl-
asis are but little behind salt rheum in the sdf
fering they cause. Scald head is another OBJ
stinate affection, defying all remedies, de-
stroying the hair, and producing great misery
and suffering. The scalp, like the skin, is sub
ject to salt rheum, letter, dandrutf, and other
eruptive and scaly diseases, which generally
destroy the hair follicles, and produce per-
manent badness.
THE TREATMENT
of diseases of the skin or scalp has been for
centuries based upon the mistaken theory
that they are entirely due to some impurity of
the blood. No special attention has ever been
directed to the important part the sweat and
fat glands play in the propagation and main
tenance of disease.
profession to say that its efforts in the cure of
skin diseases have been a failure. What with
mistaken theories, poisonous remedies, and
blind adherence to methods and practices
originating in ignorance snd superstition, salt
rheum, scald head, and psoriasis flourish and
increase upon systems shattered by the CO.
plOuS use, DOtn lnIefllul ana external, OF mGr-
curry, arsenic. zinc and lead
For centuries it has been the popular notion
that diseases of the skin and scalp must be
cured if cured at all, 10y purifying the blood.
been the method or what the remedies by which
it was sought to be accomplished?
MERCURY AND ARSENIC.
Putting aside the senseleSs sarsaparilla,'
"dock," and "dandelion blood purifiers"
and considering only those remedies that
have. received the sanction of physicians,
hospitals and colleges, we find that mercury
and arsenic are the only medicinal agents of
to-day, as they were hundreds OF years ago,
which are regarded by the regular" as hav-
| ing specific medical properties for the purif-
cation of the blood, and hence the only rene
dies adapted to the treatment of skin and
scalp diseases.
THE TRUE THEORY.
But little light is being thrown upon the
darkness that has surrounded the intellect of
the past. To a few German and FRENCH ply.
sicians and specialists we owe what true
progress we are making at the present time
in the cure of obstinate affections of the skin
and scalp. They teach and prove, a that dis
eases of the skin and scalp are caused by de-
rangement of the secretory and excretory
tubes and vessels of the true skin; and C2)
that such diseases or affections are aggra-
waited and maintained by poisonous fluids con-
tanning the virus of scrofula, malaria, or CON
tagious disease, which are discharged from
the blood and circulating fluids upon the skin
through the sweat and fat glands From these
facts they successfully maintain that skin
remedies, nor solely by external remedies
but by judicious use of both. These affec-
tons are not wholly caused by impurities of
the blood and circulating fluids, nor are they
due entirely TO a diseased condition of the
sweat and fat glands, tubes, vessels, and cells
OF the true skin, but to a peculiar and in
separable condition of both. For if you treat
the one to, the neglect of the other, no prog
ress is made; but with attention to both at
the same time, and the use of such remedies
aSl can here recommend, cure is possible in
nearly every case,
"wHAT WE WANT"
said distinguished authority on the skin,
what we most earnestly desire in order to
cure obstinate skin and scalp affections, are
three great remedies with as many specific
properties, namely:
I" !. An internal remedy possessing cathar-
tic, tonic and Alternative properties, which will
enable it to expel through the natural purifiers
of the body, viz, the lungs, liver, kidneys,
bowels, and skin, the constitutional poison
which floats in the blood and circulating fluids
of the body.
"2. An external, interchangeable application
OF jelly consistence that may arrest intiamma-
tiOn or irritation and DESTROY fungus or para
site growths and,
80. An emollent and healing soap, free from
caustic alkalies and irritating properties, for
cleansing diseased surfaces, and partaking, in
milder form, the medicinal properties of the
external application.
with three such remedies as / conceive it
possible to prepare, but which do not now
know TO exist, | will venture to assert that
ninety per centum of the skin diseases in ex-
istence may be permanently cured"
THE USUAL REMEDIES FAILURES.
If have appeared severe upon the medical
profession, have not been unjustly so toward
physicians who adhere TO practices at variance
with reason and common sense, and, withal,
lamentable failures / here assert that no
ointment, salve, cerate, lotion, or compound,
for external application, nor Alternative, or
"bloOd purifier for internal use, to be found
in the materia medica of the schools and col
leges of medicine-and there are thousands of
them-will certainly cure case of chronic
salt rheum psoriasis, or leprosy. have tried
them with all the care and experience sug-
istactory results as to specific curative prop
critics.
HOPE FOR THE AFFLICTED.
Hence, when Messrs> Weeks s. Potter,
Chemists and Druggists, of Boston, Mass,
Informed me that for eight years they had
and had obtained-mostly from substances
never before used in medicine, and by proc
ess original with themselves - three great
remedies which they believed to be an infal-
lible cure for every kind of skin, scalp ard
blood disease, from salt rheum to dandruff,
whether caused by u scrofulous or disease
tainted blood, or by morbid condition OF the
SKIN, or both. was gratitied beyond measure.
As my life has been and is devoted to the
treatment of skin and scalp diseases, to which
L nave given much study and attention,
eagerly embraced the opportunity afforded
me by Messrs. Weeks & Potter, to make Il
thorough test of these remedies in my prac-
tice, determined, if successful to give Them
to. This now do after two years of extraor-
binary success with them, with the object of
thereby lesSening, as far as in my power the
great suffering caused by the diseases under