The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-21
PINiPf.IS.
Beauty Blemishes, Dishguring Hunors,
skin fortures and Impure Hood. aud
the Cause. How they MAY be Cured

fanny, AAdto privilege OF nature, Ihe-
oerius delightful prejudice, Tneophras.
tus silent cheat, Carneades solitary
kingdom, Homer glorious gilt OF nature,
Ovid favor Of the sods, Aristotle affirmed
that beauty was better than all the letters
instrumentation in the world, and yet
none of these distinguished authorities has
left us even hint OF how beauty is TO be
perpetualed, or the ravages Of age and dis
ease defed. Time soon blends the lily and
the rose into the palor OF age, disease dots
the iair face with cutaneous disigurations,
and crimsons the Roman nose with un.
slightly iushes. Moth, if not rust, corrupts
the glory OF eyes, teeth, and lips, yet beau
tltul, by deiacing the complexion, and fills
the sensitive soul with agony unspeakable,
such be the unhappy condition of one
afflicted with slight skin blemiShes, what
must be the feeling OF those in whom
torturing humors have for years run riot,
covering the skin with scales and sores,
and charging the blood with poisonous ele-
ments to become part OF the system until
death tbs vain to attempt to portray
such suffering. Death in many cases,
which we have witnessed, might be consid.
cred blessing, The blood and fluids
seem to be impregnated with fiery ele-
ment which, when discharged through the
pores upon the surface of the body, in.
flames, and burns until in his efforts for re.
lief, the patient tears the skin with his
nails, ana not until the blood flows does
sufficient relief come 10 cause him to desist.
Thus do complexional defects merge into
torturing disease, and piqued vanity Civ s
place TO real suffering. A little wart on
tina nlnpE IN tho al
ing lupus, a patch OF letter on the palm of
the hand or on thellmhS suddenly envelops
the body in its fiery embrace, bruise on
the leg expands into gnawing
ulcer. which reaches out its fangs 10
the sufferers heart, in every paroxysm of
pain, a small kernel in the neck multiples
into dozeH, which eat away thu vitality,
great pearl-Iike scales grow from little
rash like determinations in such abundance
as TO pass creduity, and 30 on may we de
pict the suffering to which poor human ma.
ture is subject from cutaneous diseases, all
OF which involve great mental distress be.
cause OF personal designations.
Every school girl or boy knows that il a
pore in the skin in his or her face becomes
ciogged, black head appears, and sur.
rounding 1t little pimple. If dozen
pores become ologged, there are dozen
blackheads and pimples. So 1t Is with acne
In saltrheum, or as 1t is technically called
eczema, the cause of the disease seems to be
in the blood, from the fact that the perspir.
atory fluids which pour out through the
| tubes Is charged with 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
frequently be seen fully developed in young
iniants at birth. In such cases Il
is often called milk crust, scald-head,
etc, but there is no doubt ofits real nature,
and that 1t is an inherited humor, If there
were not another external disease known,
salt rteum would be sufficient infection
on mankind. 1t pervades all classes, and
descends impartially through generations,
While some are constantly enveloped init,
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 distinctive feature is IA small
watery blister, which discharges an acrid
iluid, causing heat, Inflammation aud in
tense itching, Ring-worm, letter scald head
dandruil, belong to this scaly and itching
order of diseases. Psoriasis, our modern
leprosy. with its mother-of-pearl scale,
situated on Redeemed has which bleeds
| upon the removal OF the scale, is 10 be
dreaded and avoided as of old. Lupus, the
all devouring ulcer, impetigo barber's itch,
erysipelas, and score Of minor disorders
make up the catalogue ofexternal diseases
OF the skin. Thus far We have made no nj
fusion to those affections which are mani.
festly impurities of the blood, viz swell
| ing OF the glands OF the throat, ulcers on
the neck and limbs, tumors, abcesses, and
mercurial polsons, because the whole list
can be comprehended in the one word
'scrofula.'
The hereditary blood poison of scroflla
develops in the delicate tissues of the brain
mental weaknesses and iniirmities. idiocy
and insanity. 1t enlarges the glands of the
throat, impairs the sense of smell and taste.
or breaks into consuming ulcers on the
neck. 1t destroys the lungs, or fills them
with tuberculons secretions. 1t eats. away
the coating of the. stomach, enlarges the
liver, clogs the kidneys, creates constipa.
ton and induces piles. The muscles it
contracts and renders powerless with rheu.
matism, while the secretions of the Joints
contaminated by il cause the painful govt,
1t loads the perspiration with its virulent
poison, setting on fire in its passage the M.
tie tubes or pores of the skin, causing the
torturing designation salt rheum. psoria,
sis, and other itching and scaly diseases
which embitter life. 1t gathers at morbid
centres into tumors, Assesses, and lite.sap
ping ulcers. 1t slowly undermines the CON
stitution, and is the cause of nearly all
chronic diseases.
The treatment of disease 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 clay in the propagation and main.
tenance OF disease by pouring out upon the
surface of the body perspiratory fluids
charged with the virus OF disease germs OF
scroiulous, inherited, and contagious hu.
mors. We are not unjust to. the profession
when we say that its Efforts in the perma.