The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-05-02
PIMPLES.
Beauty Blemishes, Disflguring Humers,
Skin Tortures and Impure Blood,
and the Cause.
HOW They May be Cured.
New Remedies

New Remedies.l
Socrates called beauty a shOrt-ived tyran-
ny, Plato privilege of nature, Theocritus
delightful prejudice, Theophrastus a silent
cheat, Carneades solitary kingdom, Homer
a glorious gift of nature, Ovid favor of the
gods. Aristotle affirmed that beauty was
better than all the letters of recommends
ton in the world, and yet none of these dis
tingushed authorities has left us even a
hint of how beauty is to be perpetuated or
the ravages of age and disease defied. Time
soon blends the lily and the rose into the
pallor of age, disease dots the fair face with
cutaneous designations and crimsons the
Roman nose with unsiGhtly fiushes. Moth,
if not rust corrupts the glory Of eyes, teeth
and lips, yet beautiful, by defacing the COM
plexion, and fills the sensitive soul with
agony uusDeakabe.
| IL such be the unhappy condition OF one
afflicted with slight skin blemSshee, what
must be the feelings of those in whom tor
turing humors have for years run riot, COW
charging the blood with poisonous elements
to become part of the system until death?
u is vain to attempt to portray such suffer
ing. Death in many cases which we have
| witnessed might be considered blessing.
The blood and fluids seem to be impregnated
with fiery element which. when discharged
] through the pores upon the surface of the
body, inhsmes and burns until in his efforts
for relief the patient tears the skin
with his nails, and not until the
blood flows does sufficient relief come
| to cause him to desist. Thus
do complexional defects merge into tortur-
ing disease, and piqued vanity gives place
to real suffering. A little wart on the nose
or cheek grows to the all devouring lupus,
a patch of letter on the palm of the hand or
on the limbs suddenly envelops the body in
its fiery embrace, bruise on the leg ex-
pands into a gnawing ulcer, which reaches
out its fangs to the sufferers heart, in every
paroxysm of pain; a small kernel in the
neck muluplies into dozen, which eat
away the vitality; great pearl-like scales
grow from little rash-like Inflammation in
such abundance as to pass credulity; and so
on may we depict the suffering to which
poor human nature Is subject from cutaDe-
Gus diseases, all of which involve great
mental distress because of personal disfigura-
tioDs.
. Every school girl or boy knows that il a
pore in the skin IN his or her face becomes
clogged a black head appears. and sur
rounding it a little pimple. II a dozen
pores become clogged, there dozen
black heads and pimples. So il is with acne.
In salt rheum, or, as it is technically called,
| eczema, the cause of the disease seems to be
in the blood, from the fact that the pre-
spiratory fluids which pour out through the
tubes are charged with poisonous element
that creates the most intense itching and
, violeIt Inflammation, and rapidly destroys
the outer or scarf skin. This dreadful form
of skin diseases attacks all ages, and may
frequently be seen fully developed in young
infants at birth. In such cases it is often
: called milk crust. scald-head, ETC., but there
! is no doubt of its real nature and that it is
an inherited humor. If there were not
another external disease known, salt
rheum would be sufficient in
Fiction msnkind. 1t pervades
all classes, and descends impartially through
! generations. While some are constantly
enveloped in it. others have it confined to
small patches in the ears, on the scalp, on
the breast, on the palms of the hands, on
the limbs, etc, but everywhere its distinct
i've feature is a small watery blister, which
discharges an acrid fluid, causing heat, in
Aammation and intense itching. Ring
worm, letter. scald-head, dandruff, belong
to this scaly aud itching order of diseases.
Psoriasis, our modern leprosy, with its
mother-of pearl scale, situated on a red
dened base, which bleeds upon the removal
OF the scale, is to be dreaded and avoided,
as of old. Lupus. the all-devouring ulcer,
score of minor disorders, make up the cata-
logue of external diseases OF the skin. Thus
far we have made no allusion to those Attic
tions which are manifestly impurities of the
; blood, viz, swelling OF tie glands of the
throat, ulcers on the neck and limbs, tu-
mors, assesses, and mercurial poisons, be
cause the whole list can be comprehended
in the one word "scrofula."
The hereditary blood poison of scrofula
develops in the delicate tissues of the brain
mental weaknesses and intrmities, idiocy
and insanity. II enlarges the glands of the
throat, impeirs the sense of smell and taste,
or breaks into consuming ulcers on the
neck. 1t destroys the lungs, or fills them
with tuberculous secretions. 1t eats away
the coating of the stomsch, enlarges the
liver, clogs the kidneys, creates constipation
and induces p'les The muscles il contracts
and renders powerless with rheumatism,
) while the secretions of the joints contami-
mated by it cause the painful govt. Ii
loads the perspiration with its virulent
poison, setting on fire in its passage the little
tubes or pores OF the skin, causing the tor
turing designation salt rheum, psoriasis,
and other itching and scaly diseases which
embitter life. IL gathers at morbid centres
into tumors. Assesses, and lifesapping III
GERS. Ii slowly undermines the constitu
ton, and is the cause of nearly all chronic
diseases.
a The treatment OF diseases OF the skin and
scalp has been for centuries based upon a
theory which has entirely overlooked the
! important part the tubes and vessels of the
skin play in the propagation and main
tenance of disease by pouring out upon the
surface of the body respiratory fluids
charged with the virus or disease germs OF
scrofuia inherited and contagious numors.
We are not unjust TO the profession when
we say that its efforts in the permanent cure
of skin, scalp and blood diseases have been
a failure. What with mistaken theories,
mineral poisons and blind reverence sor
dogmas and superstitions long since ex-
ploded, disfguring humors, humiliating
eruptions, itching tortures, and scrofula,
J the parent of all humors, flourish and in
crease upon systems shattered by mercury,
arsenic, zinc and lead. Nor have the sense
less "sarsaparilla," dock" and dandelion
blood purifiers (?) of quacks and patent med
icine vendors been any better or much
, worse.
We know that every word we now write
will awaken hope in the breas. of many q
lifelong sufferer. Can we, in broad and
generous spirit, without prejudice, without
! reservation, say to those afflicted, Here in
} the Cuticurs remedies, which may be had OF
any druggist at less than the cost of physi'
, clans visit, is q speedy and permanent cure
fo- diseases of the skin, scalp and blood,
which have defied all known remedies, and
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