Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-02
WHAT Is BEAUTY
THE LILY AND THE ROSE" COMPLEXION
AND WHAT 1T COSTS.
WHAT THE SKIN AND SCALP HAVE TO
TO Do WITH BEAUTY.
SKIN ToRTURES AND DISFIGURArIoNa
AND PoISoNs AND PoIsoNERs.
FACTS, FANCIES AND PALACES OF
PATIENTS, DOCTORS AND REMEDIES.

Beauty-thou pretty plaything dear deceit
| That steals 30 softly DER the striping's heart
Socrates called beauty a short-nved tyranny. Plato
privilege Of nature Theocritus delightful rrejudice
Thecphrastus silent cheat Carneadss q solitary king.
dom HON er glorious gift Of nature Ovid favor of
| the gods Aristotle affirmed that beauty Letter
than ali the letters of Recommendation i'm the world
and yet none of these distinguished authorities has le
US even hint of how teauty is perpetuated or
the ravages Of and disease dehed. Time soon bends
the lily and the into the raor age disease ots
the fair face with cutaneous designations crmsons
the Roman nose with unsightly Pushes. Moth f not
rust corrupts the glory of eyes. teoth and lps yet
beautiful by defacns the complexion, and fills ths
sensitive soul with agony unsreakable.
If such be the unhappy condition Of one afflicted with
slight skin blemshes. what must be the feeling Of thoss
in whom torturng humors for years run riot COW
erng the skin with sores and charging the
blood with poisonous elements become part Of the
system until DEATH 1t vain TO attempt 10 portray
such suffering. Death In many cases. which we have
witnessed might be considered blessing. The blood
and fluids Seem TO lie imprenated with fiery element
which, when discharged through the pores upon the
surface of the body, innames and burns until in his
efforts for relief. the patient tears the skin with his
nails. and not until the blood flows does sufficient re-
lief come to him desist Thus docomrlexionsl
defects merge into torturng disease aud qued vanity
gives place to real suffering. little Oh the nose
or cheek grows to the al-devouring lupus patch ~
letter ON the palm Of the hand the limbs suddenly
envelopes the body in its fiery embrace bruise on tho
leg expands into a gnawng ulcer which rea ches out III
fsngs TO the sufferers heart In every paroxySm a
pan small kernel fl the neck multipies into dozen
which eat the vitality; great pearl ike scales grow
from little rashke iEnammations in such abundanos
as TO pass creduity; and may we deict the SUI
fering to which poor human nature is subject GU
taneous diseases, all Of which involve great mental dis
| tress because Of personal designations.
Every school girl boy knows that IL pore In the
SKIN In his or her face becomes cosged little black
mead appears, and surrounding 1t little rimple
dozen pores become clogged there are a dozen black
heads and pimpes. So il il with acne In salt rheum
or as it is technically called eczema the cause of the
dsesse seems TO be in the blood the fact that the
fluids which pour out through the tubes are charged
with poisonous element that creates the intense
itching and violent Inflammation and rapidly de troys
the outer scarf skin. This dreadful form of skin
diseases attacks all ages. and may frequently be
fully developed in young infants at birth In suob
cases 1t Is often called milk crust scald head etc but
there Is no doubt Of its real nature. and that IL an
Inherited humor If there not another external
| disease known, salt rheum would be n sufficient
infection mankind. IL pervadts ell classes.
| aud descends Invariably through generations While
some are constantly enyeOped in it. others have IL con-
hned to small patches in the ears, the acay the
breast on the palms Of the hand the limbs etc. but
everywhere its distinctive feature waiery bis
ter which discharges acrd fuid, causing heat
inauon and Intense itching. Rng-worm. letter. scald
head dandruf, belong to this scay and itching order
OF diseases. Psoriasis, modern leprosy with its
mother-of-pearl SCALE situated a Redeemed base,
winch deeds upon the removal Of the scale ~ DO
dreaded and avoided Of old Lupus the all de-
vonr1ng ulcer. impetigo. BARRIERS itch erysc elias and
ascore OF minor disorders make the catalogue
ternal diseases of the skin. Thus have made no
ailuson to those Affections which mAnifesty I'm
pu1ties OF the blood viz swelling of the glands Of the
throat ulcers In the neck aud limbs tumors abscesses
ana mercurial poisons because the whole can be
comprehendei in the one word scrofula
Scrofua or kings evil, is the most insidou. myste.
rous. and formidable OF all the affections to which hu-
mainly is subject 1t may lie undeyeoped In the sys-
tenn and pass over one two three eeneratons with
out in the least interfering with the health causing
any Inconvenience from eruptye outbreak and then
reappear with the utmost vruence in the fourth gener-
aton every muscle and tissue the bony framework Of
the system and the blood coursng through the veins
being irretrevably impregnated by subtle poison
This disease annoying and disgusting b the sens
tive mind may well be called the plague of the social
circle Its tenacty equals its yirulence. and only
hope of its eradication early apprecation Of
| its dangers and its power.
III scrofuls is promptly treated in childhood. the
poison Is much more speedily and efectualy eradioat
ed than when it is allowed to permeate the system for
series of years. the patient consequently escaping the
sad and narrowing experiences of a youth ana early
manhood and womanhood blighted by constant sick
ness nervous prostration. excrucistng agony from
perverted or morbid condition OF mental and physical
functions. and than all life embtt red by So
| cal isolation from disfguremeuts more annoying and
heartrending in their results than plaque or the
ancient leprosy.
The treatment of diseases OF the skin and sealp has
been for centuries based upon theory which has en-
trey overlooked the important part of the tubes and
vessels of the skin play in the propagation and main
tenance of disease by pouring upon the surface of
the body perspratory ids charged with the virus or
disease germs of scrofuous, and contagious
humors We are not unjust to the profession when
say that its efforts in the permanent of sn scalp
and blood diseases have been a failure. What with
mistaken theories. mineral posons and blind
for dogmas and superstons long since exploded salt
rheum psoriasis. scad head and scrofua the parent
of all humors. flourish and increase upon systems
shattered by mercury, arsenic. zinc and lead. Nor
have the senseess sarsaparila," dock" and dande-
lion blood purifiers I'D of quacks and patent medicine
vendors been any better much worse.
"A few years Of the ablest physicians sur
geons, and scientists Boston has produced turned
his attention to the treatment Of diseases
and by series of micr oscopic and chemical analyses Of
the perspiratory fluids and the blood botL n health
aud disease. reached the following remarkable concu
sions: l. That diseases Of the ana scalp re caused
by arrangement of the secretory aud eXcrory tubes
and vessels of the true skin such diseases
or affections aggravated and maintained by poison
GUS fluids containing the virus of scrofua malaria
contagious disease. which discharged from the
bood and circulating fluids upon the skin through the
sweat and fat glands. He successfully maintained
against all opposition that skin diseases cannot be
cured solely by internal remedies, solely by exter-
n al remedies, but by Judicious of both. These
affections wholly caused by impurities of tha
hood and circulating fluids they due entirely
to diseased condition of the sweat and fat glands
tubes vessels and cells of the true skin but to pecu-
Lar and inseparabe condition of both For il one bs
treated to the egect of the other permanent pro-
is made; but, with atteno to both at the same
time, azure is possible in nearly every case.
Having fully proven his theory he engaged Messrs.
Weeks Potter, chemists and druggists Boston, Mass
who are permitted TO refer to any druggist city
or vicinity as to their standing the largest ug
and chemical houses in the country to put pra
neal form the remedies which experience had suggested
to him as most desirable. Hence the origin
cura remedies How these truly great curat1yes have
prevailed over all opposition and become the rel
ance OF skin doctors private hospitals public institu
tons and the people generally IN the treatment of dis
eases Of the skim scalp and scrofuous impurities of the
blood are matters of history of which do not pro-
pose to speak. That Cuticura (from cults and eura.
meaning skin cure) and Cuticura Soap prepared from
it. externally, and Cutcura Resolvent, the new blood
purifier internally, viii clear the complexion. cleanse
the skin and scalp and purify the blood Of every
cies Of itching scay, pimpy scrofuous mercural and
cancerous humors sores, ulcers, swelngs. tumorA
Assesses blood posons. scurvy. salt rheum erysipe-
Las. psoriasis scald head BARRIERS itch. and all other
in md ~oH