Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-28
PIN PIES.
Beauty BlemiSheS, Dihguring Hu.
lnOTS, SKIN TOrtureS, and
Impure Blood. and
the Cause.
How They May Be Cured

tyranny, Plato q privilege of nature,
Theocritus a delightful prejudice,
Theophrastus a silent cheat, Oar.
neades a solitary kingdom, Homer a
glorious gift Of nature, ovid q favor Of
the gods. Aristotle affirmed that
beauty was better than all the letters
of recommendation In the world, and
yet none of these distinguished u
thorities has left us even q hint Of how
beauty 10 to be perpetuated, or tho
ravages of age and disease defed.
Time o o blend the lily and the
rose into the pslor of age, disease dots
the fair face with outaneous dis6gur-
%ations, crimsons the Roman o with
unsishtly flashes. Moth, II not rust,
corrupts the glory Of eyes, teeth and
lips, yet beautiful, by d~ofsoing the
complexion, and fills the sensitive
soul with agony un~speakable.
If such be the unhappy condition Of
one afflicted with slight skin blem-
ishes, what must DO the feelings Of
those In whom torturlng humors have
for years run riot, covering the skin
with scales and sores, and charging
the blood with poisonous elements to
become a part Of the system untll
death2 1t 10 vain to attempt to per-
tray such suffering. Death in many
cases, which we have witnessed, might
be considered a blessing. The blood
and fluids seem to be impregnated
with a fiery element which, when dis
charged through the pores upon the
surface of the body, inflames aud
burns until In his efforts for relief,
the patient tears tho skin with his
nails, and not until the bloods flows
does sufficient relief come to cause
him to desist. Thus do c~omplexional
defects merge into torturing dis.
ease, and piqued vanity gives place to
real suffering. A little wart on the
nose or face or cheek grows to the all
devouring lupus, a patch of letter on
the palm of the hand or on the limbs
suddenly develops the body In its fiery
embrace, a bruise on the leg expands
into a gnawing ulcer, which reaches
out Its fangs to the sufferers heart, in
every paroxysm of pain, o small kerr
mel IT, the neck multipliea Into 9
dozen, which eat away the vitality,
great pearl. like scales grow from little
Hash.liko determinations In such abur-
dslce ss to psss credulty; and 50 or
may we depict the suffering to which
poorhuman nature is subject from
cutaneouS diseases, all Ct which involv,
great mental distress because Of per
nonal diAfiguration.
Every school girl or boy who know
that II a pore In the skin In his or he
face becomes clogged, q black hes'
appearu, and surrounding 1t q littl
pimple, If q dozen pores becom
clogged, there are a dozsa black head
and plmples. So 1t 10 with acne 1
salt rheum, or, as II Is tecnnicall
called, eczema, the cause of tho dill
ease seems to DO In the blood, fror
the fact that the prespiratory fuit
which pour out through the tubes al
charged with a poisonous 81,
meat that creates the most II
tense itching and violent IL fan
nation, and rapidly destroy
the outer or scarf skin. This dreadf,
form of skin diseases attacks all sge
and may. frequently be ueen folly d,
! veloped In Young infants at birth.
! such cases 1t 10 often called mil
I crust, ucald head, etc., but there 10 I
doubt of Its real nature, and that it
an inherited humor. If there we
not another external disaa.e know,
salt rheum would be q sufficient infii
> ton on mankind. 1t perv.des q
: classes, and desoends impartial
through generations. While 80,
are constantly enveloped In
others have It confined to small patch
= in the ears, onthe aoalp, on the bre,
= on the palms of the hands, on t
limbs, ETC., but everywhere its distir
tive feature Is q small watery blistt
which discharges an achd fluid, oausi
1t heat, Inflammation and Intense Ito
. ing. Ring worm letter, soald hes
y dandruff, belong to this scaly and its
Ing order of diseases. Psoriasis, Q
;" modern leprosy, with Ito mother
), pearl scale, situated on . redden
Base, which bleeds upon
removal of the scale, IL to
dreaded and avoided, a. Of old. L
pus, the all. devouring ulcer, impeti,
BARRIERS Itch, ~erysipelss, and asoore
to minor disorders make up the ~oatalop
P. of external diseases Of the ok
- Thus far We hav, made NJ allusion
y those affections which are NANTES
impurities Of the blood, viz. swt
ing of the glards Of the throat, ulo,
g. on the neck snd limbs, tumors,
" ~cesses, and nerourial poisons, beoay
8, the whele liE can be comprehend
10 In the one word "sorofula."
ID The hersditsry blood poison
scrofula develops In the delicate I
sues Of tie brain mental weakness
OF and infirnaties, idiooy and insani
vs It enlarles the glands Of the throI
impairs the sense Of smell and tas
~ or breaks into consuming ulcers on I
40 neck. 1t destroys the lungs, or &
them With tuterculous secretions.
a. eats away the coating Of the stomat
u. enlarges the liver, clogs the kidne.
of ~oreotes constipation and induces pill
60 Ths muscles II contracts and rend,
powerless with rheumatism, while I
secretions of the Joints oontaminnt
by it cause the painful govt. II loa
=, the Precipitation with its virule
poison, setting on fire in Its passa
OF the little tubes or pores of the ski
's. causing the torturing designations
an rheum, psoriasis, and other itchi