Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-10-14
ERUPTIVE DISEASE.
Affection Which Are in Reality Blessings
in Disguise.

in Disguise.
AS predatory, will remark that the
true difficulty is back, behind what we
are accustomed to call the disease, which
may be regarded as the index of the de-
rangement of the system, the evidence
of internal distractions or of general
impurity. Indeed, what we call dis
ease is but symptom, evidence of de-
PRAYED state of the body, the outward
manifestations of recuperative efforts,
or a manifestation of the curative eff
forts of nature, for the removal of in
ternal arrangement, the election OR dis
posal of the impurities of the body. 1t
is claimed that all of the efforts Of ma
ture are of merciful character, all in
the line Of cure or Improvement, though,
from adverse circumstances or the con-
fusion produced by the interference and
opposition of attendants, failures often
occur. These principles are well Illus
trated by the usual eruptive diseases,
connected with which there is more or
less of the discharge of ef1ete, putrid
and poisonous matters. IN
clude what are usually regarded as
measles, chicken-pox, smallpox and
the like, though this last is as often
known among adults. [ claim, there
fore, that all such as the measles, scar
latina. chicken-pox and rashes, gener-
ally, are renovating steps in the devel-
opment of the Young, that all purify,
naturally, as the eruptions are attended
by effete matters, more or less visible.
4 ole oil ha% oil fr.,
sores, cancers not excepted, are but the
results of natures efforts at purifica-
ton, Just to this extent prolonging life,
even when the case proves fatal. The
fact that the escaping matters often
prove excoriat;ng, producing sores or
irritations wherever they touch the
skin, will illustrate their putrid and
poisonous character.
The body becomes impure, in an abb
normal state. from eating impure food,
as that of very ''tender" meats-when
made so, as it often is, by semi-putre-
faction, from age; or from eating so
much that all can not be digested, pu-
trefying in the stomach or in the bow
els: from failing to breathe sufficiently
of pure air, or breathing pestiferous air
and foul vapols; but the inactivity OF
the skin, the pores being SO closed that
the effete matters can not escape; and
for general want of cleanliness. In
this cond ton, nature-always seeking
cleanliness -attempts publication.
through some of the outlets, acting like
the sewers of the city. in the failure OF
which, the skin is put "under contrlbu-.
tion," the natural escape for most OF
this impurity being through the pores.
This is ught through eruptfve dis
eases, sores, assesses and even cancers,
the discharges from which prove a
blessing, all that is thrown off being
just so much eliminated, so much
poison thrown out of the body, just to
that extent diminishing the occasion for
disease. There is no sense, no phil
osophy, in the popular idea, in the past,
or among the ignorant, that sores run
the life away" as only putrid matters
escape, a retention of which, as we have
seen, causes ''blood-poisoning.' A
sudden retention of this poison will al
ways produce more or less connection
in the system, if not death, in extreme
cases. It is always safe to promote
such discharges, having "a clean sore. !"
DR.. j. II. Haal0ford, IN Waschnad,a