Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-17
BEAUTY BUT SKIN DEEP.
How to Beautify, How to Preserve, and
How to Treat, when Diseased,
the Skin and Scalp.

BEAUTY BUT SKIN DEEP.
How to Beautify, How to Preserve, and
How to Treat, when Diseased,
the Skin and Scalp.
BY NJ. E. JosSELYN, NJ. D., OF NEW YORK.
Apart from the suffering caused by skin
diseases, their influence on the happiness of
those to whom delicate and pearly complex
ion is the dearest wish of their lives is para
cutaneous eruptions, or loss of hair, will deny
that, to obtain. a fair skin and luxuriant
urations that now mar her otherwise hand
some face, hands, OF hair, for other diseases
of greater severity-even danger-could their
Many an estimable adys life has been embit-
tered by cutaneous affections. She imagines
looks. She avoids society and public places,
and endeavors to hide her misery in seclusion.
is renewed. No remedy is too repnlsive or
dangerous to be used. Arsenic is devoured in
large a1antes mereuTy & is taken ak internally
in their loosened sockets, and the system
groans beneath the load of poisons it is
If such be the feelings of one afflicted with
slight skin blemishes, what must be the con-
dition of those suffering from salt rheum, tet-
hchen, prurigo and scald head? No pen can
fully describe the tortnres 2dS s. they endure
blessing. The burning heat, inflammation
and itching. nearly impel the sufferer to do
ings. | have seen patients tear their flesh
with their nails until the blood flowed in
streams Others have told me that they could
cut the flesh from their limbs, SO great was
the agony they endured.
With view to impart some useful informa-
tfOn on the construction and preservation of
the skin, scalp, and hair, and the proper treat
ment of them when diseased, have here con-
densed to popular form such information as
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SKIN
The skin is composed of two layers, which
he SeDaratp0 from each other nv the r.
tion of a blister: The thin portion which is
raised up by the blister is called the scarf skin,
the cutice, the epidermis; that which re-
mains in connection with the body is the sensi-
tive skin, the cults, the derma, the true
The scarf skin is horny and insensfble, and
serves as sheath to protect the more sensi-
off, we could not bear to have anything touch
us. The derma or true skin, and its glands,
oil tubes, etc., are the seat of all cutaneous
THE OIL AND SWEAT GLANDS.
That the skin may be pliable and healthy 1t
this the Creator has wisely provided BY placing
in the true skin small glands and tubes, whose
the Poof OF OIL
parts of the body they do not exist, but are
abundant on the face, nose ears, head. eye
lids, 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
little vessels are always at work, and constant
ly responding to the demands made upon
AFRAID to WASH Thoroughly day With soae
and water, lest, as the Boston Medical Jour
naf' once taught, the skin be injured by hav-
ing the oil removed from 1t.
FREQUENT wAsHINGS WITH PURE SOAP
free from caustic alkalies) and lukewarm
towel, will do more to preserve the healthy ac-
ton of the Oil glands and tubes, upon which
than ali the % cosmetics in the world. So i'm,
portant fs the free and perfect action of the
sweat and fat or Oil glands in the preservation
l~ft ,, e1 hoo1f rxol kl<r ,s,l
condition of the skin, that particular attention
to them will be rewarded by increased physical
! 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-
| vfous 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 tnsigni1cance when compared
with the great skin and scalp diseases with
| whole lives. That the reader may know more
about them, the principal affections are here
stitutional diseases, like measles, rash, etc
The most important are salt rheum or eczema
tfefter f ringWo1m, psoriasis M Mimpetigo leprosy
| drun.
Towering above all others in extent, in dura
ton, in suffering, is
! commonly called salt rheum. Wilson divide!
and to
reader, and will be recognized by its sinai
watery blister, about the size of a pinhead
asis are but little behind salt rheum in the suf
| fering thoy cause. Scald head is another OBJ
stroying the hair. and producing great miser! err
and suffering. The scalp, like the skin, is sub
ject to salt rheum, letter, dandruf, and othe
destroy the hair follicles, and produce per
manent badness.
THE TREATMENT
| of diseases of the skin or scalp has been fol
| centuries based upon the mistaken theor.
that they are entirely due to some impurity o
| the blood. No special attention has ever beel
directed to the important part the sweat an
fat glands play in the propagation and main
1t is no unjust reflection upon the medica
profession to say that its efforts in the cure 0
skin diseases have been failure. What wit
mistaken theories, poisonous remedies, an
blind adherence to methods and practice
originating in ignorance snd superstition, sal
increase upon systems shattered by the &C
pfous use, both internal and external, Of mel
rssnle zne 6as bes% the nonar noto
that diseases of the skin and scalp must b
CURED, il cured at all, by purifying the blood.
been the method or what the remedies by whic
it was sought to be ACCOMPLISHED?
MERCURY AND ARSENIC.
"dock," and "dandelion !" 'blood purifiers,
and considering, only those remedies tina
hospitals and COLLEGES, we find that mercur
and arsenic are the only medicinal agents G
BY the oi
ing specific medical properties for the purif
cation of the blood, and hence the only RENE
dies adapted to the treatment of skin an
scalp diseases.
But little light is being thrown upon tn
darkness that has surrounded the intellect G
the past. To a few German and French ph!
sicians and specialists we owe what tru
III of ft1n Cnr1f
in the cure of obstinate affections Of the ski
and scalp. They teach and prove, O that di
rangement of the secretory and excretor
tubes and vessels of the true skin; and c
aC Or H
, tanning the virus of scrofula, malaria, or col
thgious disease, which are discharged frol
through the sweat and fat glands. From thes
facts they successfully maintain that ski
remedies, ' nor solely Oh % By External g Il remedie %
but by 5udicious use of both. These affe
tions are not wholly caused by impurities {
the blood and circulating fluids, nor are the
due entirely to diseased condition Of II
sweat and fat glands, tubes, vessels, and Gel
, separabie condition of both. For if you tres
the one to the neglect of the other, no prol
ress is made: but with attention to both q
as can here recommend, a cure is possible
nearly every case: case ~ - .
said a distinguished authority on the ski
s'what we most earnestly desire in order |
cure obstinate skin and scalp affections, al
three great remedies, with as many specif
f properties, namely:
,, 1. An internal remedy possessing catha
l tic, tonic, and Alternative properties, which WI
Z enable it to expel through the natural purtfie
, of the body, viz, the lungs, liver, kidney
, bowels, and skin, the constitutional poisC
| which floats in the blood and circulating huit
: of the body.
"2. An external, Interchangeable applicable
9 of jelly consistence that may arrest infamm
: tion or irritation and destroy fungus OR par
:, site growths; and,
SO. An emollient and healing soap, free fro
e eaustic allxalies and irritating properties, f,
| cleansing diseased surfaces, and partaking,
milder form, the medicinal properties Of tt
: external application.
"With three such remedies as conceive
, possible to prepare, but which do not no
know to exist, 1 will venture to assert tn
ninety per centum of the skin diseases in e.
istence may be permanently cured"
THE USUAL REMEDIES FAILURES.
3 If have appeared severe upon the medic
profession, have not been unjustly so towal
. physicians who adhere to practices at varian'
= with reason and common sense, and, witht
s lamentable failures. 1 here assert that I
ointment, salve, cerate, lotion, or compoun
:. for external application, nor Alternative,
. "blood purifier" for internal use, to be fouI
g in the materia medica of the schools and CT
. leges of medioine-and there are thousands
q them-wiu certainly cure a case of chron
: salt rheum, psoriasis, or leprosy. have tri'
them with an the care and experience su
: gested by a liberal education, but with unss