The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-09-02
A MODERN LAZARUS.
Bushels Of Scales Fail from the Person OF n
Man. Terrible AniciiOn.

Bushels of Scales Fail from the Person OF a
Man. a Terrible Amictioa.
One of the most afflicted mortals that
| has come under our observation, says
the Kingston (N. w. Freeman, is iona,
than Schultz. Mr.. Schultz appears to
be about sixty.five years of age is q
stout, well-built and gray-haired man OF
apparent rugged health. Around his
forehead, however, is broad red streak,
which attracts the attention OF the stran.
ger, and on further and closer examin-
alton it is easily seen that the mans
scalp is completely covered with crus,
taceous matter extending down the back
Of his neck and thence out Of sight down
the neck of his shirt.
"Mr. Schultz, it is said you are suffer,
ing with salt rheum, but that you are
now getting better" was advanced by
the incomer.
"Well, yes, my dear boy, I am suffer
ing with that horrible disease, and have
been for the last two years, but as for
getting better can't see that you will
Judge for yourself," he said, and with
that he hastily barred his arms, legs and
body and showed a sight horrible to be-
hold. The man was actually one mass
of red and crusty sores. His body looked
as red as a beet, and, with the covering
of crusty white skin, he presented the
scaly appearance of an alligator or croc-
odile exactly.
"How long have you been suffering
from the dread malady, Mr.. Schultz ?"
was sympathizingly inquired.
"Well, about two years ago I first ex-
perienced soreness on my feet, but I
gradually got rid of it there. Soon
afterward, however, the disease began
to spread, and in few months l was
covered from head to foot, as you see
me now."
"Do You suffer much ?" was asked.
eyes, indeed, my sufferings are in
tense the pain Of the disease itself is
not so much, but in summer, when I
perspire very profusely, the itching is
almost beyond my endurance"
Chow is it in winter?" was the follow
ing inquiry.
SIN winter my sutferings are not of
such an irritable character, but then 1
almost freeze. I can't get clothing on
enough to keep me warm, and during
the night have to sleep between feather
beds. Why, there is no describing my
suherings. When go home at night
from work in the winter time and take
off my clothes my wife will sweep up
dustpan full of the decayed and shorn
scales that chip off my body during the
day and accumulate in my garments"
"How about the itching, sir?"
"Oh, indeed, sir, that is the worst
feature Of the affliction. 1 can't rest
for it. At night will wake up and the
irritation will be so great that it almost
sets me mad. l have been forbidden
by the physicians to scratch my body,
but ! cannot withstand it and have to
do it, and then the scratching irritates
and infames the part touched with the
nails and makes it worse. Sometimes
my body becomes so sore from this
that can neither sit nor lie down, aud
when I am standing the very touch of
my clothes is excruciating,"
els there no hope for youP"
81 don't think there is. Every doc
tor in the city has given me up, and say
they can't do anything for me. Last
November I went to New York to see
men there who are specialists
in skin diseases, but l have given them
up also, and am now doctoring myself
with cream of tartar sulphur and some
other preparations. Why, l have taken
enough arsenic to kill horse for my
I used to take as much as
could be placed on a silver dime twice
a day for months, but it did me no
good.
"People think I am getting better
because the scabs on my skin are not
as plentiful as heretofore but 1 know
that as, long as that inflammation is
present l am no better, A bushel
basket would not hold the scab.
rous particles that / have removed |
from my body. I tell you it is pretty |
tough on me. Here | am q man in the
days of life and am obliged to !
work hard for my living, besides being
thus sorely afflicted. I think l can bear
mp though as long as it is the will of
Cod" sighed the old gentleman, in
finishing up his remarks, "for / was
once given up by the doctors before. I
had the heart disease and was told to
settle up my business because my days
we're numbered, but good old doctor
over in Duchess county brought
me out all right. This disease 1 am now
with, however, is worse than
hat, because then I was resigned to
lie and thereby gain deliverance; but
N the condition I now am there seems
10 be no alternative for me by any nat
lral means. What bothers me most
,bout the disease-which they call n