The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-06-28
PIMPLES,

PIMPLES,
Beauty Blemishes, Disfiguring Humors,
Skin TEXTURES and Impure Blood and the
Cause-How They May be Cured.
Socrates called beauty a short-lived
tyranny, Plato a privilege of nature,
Theocritus delightful prejudice, Theo-
phrastus silent cheat, Carneades q solitary
kingdom, Homer glorious gift of nature,
Ovid favor of the gods. Aristotle affirmed
that beauty was better than all the letters
of recommendation in the world, and yet
lett us even hint of how beauty is to be
| perpetuated, or the ravages OF age and dis
ease defied. Time soon blends the lily and
the rose into the pallor of age, disease dots
the fair face with cutaneous designations
and cfimsons the Roman nose with I'M
slightly tiushes. Moth, if not rust, corrupts
the glory of eyes teeth and lips yet beauti-
| full by defacing the complexion, ana fills
| the sensitive soul with agony unspeakable.
If such be the unhappy condition OF one
afflicted with slight skin blemishes, what
must be the feelings of those in whom tor
turing humors have for years run riot, COW
ering the skin with scales and sores, and
charging the blood with poisonous elements
to become part of the system until death?
! LII 10 Vail W dltcupI W pOibihy
ing. Death in many cases, which We have
witnessed, might be considered blessing
The blood and fluids seem to be impreg
mated with a fiery element which, when
discharged through the pores upon the
surface of the body, infames and bu' ms
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 complex
ional defects merg2 into torturins disease,
and piqued vanity gives place to real suffer
| ing. little wart on the nose or cheek
grows to the all-dsyouring lupus, patch
Of letter on the palm ofhand or on the limbs
suddenly envelops the body in its fiery en-
brace, bruise on the leg expands into a
the sufferers heart, in every paroxy Sun OF
pain, q small kernel in the neck multiplies
into dozen, which eat away the vitality,
great pearl.like scales grow from little rash
| Ike inflammations in such abundance as to
pass credulity; and so on may we depict
the suffering to which poor human nature
is subject from cutaneous diseases, al oil
which involves great mental distress be.
cause of personal designations.
Every school girl or boy knows that if a
pore in the skin in his or her face becomes
clogged, a black-head appears, and sur
rounding 1t q little pimple. If dozen
pores become cloggeG, there are a dozen
black heads and pimples. So it Is with
acne. In salt rheum, or, as 1t is technical
called, eczema, the cause OF the disease
seems to be in the blood, from the fact thsi
the prespirAtory fluids which pour out
through the tubes are charged with q
poisonous element that creates the
most intense itching and violent
Inflammation, and rapidly destroys
the outer or scarf skin. This dreadful form
OF skin disease attacks all ages. and may
| Ixrh a full 10 heU m "
infants at birth. In such cases II Is often
called milk-crust, scald.head etc, but there
is no doubt OF It's real nature, and that II Is
an inherited humor. III there were not
another ext ernal disease known salt rheum
would be sufficient infection on mankind
Ii pervades all classes, and descends i'm
partially through generations. While some
are constantly envelop ped In IL, others have
il confined to small patches in the ears, on
the scalp, on the breast, on the palms oil
the hands, on the limbs, ETC., but every
where its distinctive feature Is a small
watery blister, which discharges an acrld
huid causing heat inflammation and IN.
tense itching. Ring-worm, letter scald
head, daudruff, belong to this scaly and
itching order Of diseases. Psoriasis, our
modern leprosy, with its mother Of pearl
| scale, situated on Redeemed base
which bleeds upon the removal Of the scale,
Is to be dreaded and avoided, ss OF old.
Lupus, the all-devouring ulcer, impetigo,
BARRIERS itch, erysipelas and score OF
minor disorders, make up the catalogue oil
external diseases Of the skin. Thus TAR we
have made no allusion to those Affections
which are manifestly impurities Of the
blood, viz: swelling Of the glands Of the
throat, ulcers on the neck and limbs.
/ tumors, abcesses, and mercurial poisons
because the whole list can be comprehended
in the one word "scrofula."
/ If ftsl n
develops In the delicate tissues OF the brain
mental weaknesses and in6rmities, idiocy
and infanity. IL snlarges the glands OF the
throat, impairs the sense OF smell and taste,
or breaks into consuming ulcers on the
neck. IL destroys the lungs, or fills
them with tuberculous secretions.
!. eats away ..,.. the ,s coating Iy. OF o,d the
the Kidneys, creates constipation aud in
duces piles. The muscles Il
contracts and renders power.
less With rhumsiism. while the secretions
Of the Joints contaminated by II cause the
painful govt. II loads the perspiration
with its yirulent poison, setting on IRE in
its passage the little tubes or pores OF the
skin, causing the torturing disfgurstiou
salt rbeum. psoriasis, and other Itching and
scsly diseases which embitter lie. IL gath
ere st morbid centers into tumors abs esses
and life-sapping ulcers. IL slowly under.
miHes the constitution. and IL The cause OF
nearly ell chronic diseases.
The treatment Of diseases Of
the skin and scalp has
been for cen uries based upon q theory
which hss entirely overlooked the impor-
tant part the tubes and vessels Of the akin
play In the propagation and mslntalnance
Of disease by pouring ont upon The surfacs
Of the body perspirHfOry fuids charged
with virus Of disease. germs OF scrofulOus
I inherited, and contagious bumors. We are
not unjust 20 the profession when ne say
that he efforts In the permanent cure u
I skin. scalp. and blood diseases have been Z
mineral p0isons, snd bind reverence for
I dogmas aud supertitions long since eI-
plooed, disfFurIng hum0rs, humiiiatinf
eruptions, itchlng torture, ard scr5fula
the parent q ell humors. flourish snd m
crease upon systems shattered b. mercury
arsenic, Kinc, and LEAD. Nor have tht
senseless s'sa-s -usriila. /" dock" ana dan
deli0n blood purifsrs % q quacks ard
psfsnt-Dedicine vendtrs been auy better o.
n uch wore
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vin autken bups IN he tressi - many I
Z lifelnng sufferer. Ca - m brua1 md
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