The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-10-23
ERUPTIvE DISEASE.
'Affiction Which Are in Reality Blessing
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 a de-
praved state of the body, the outward
manifestations of recuperative efforts,
or a manifestation of the curative ef-
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 effete, putrid
and poisonous matters. l IN
clude what are usually regarded as
the diseases of the young, rs
measles, chicken-pox, smallpox and
the like, though this last is as often
known among adults. l 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 eflete matters, more or less Visible.
l also claim that all discharges from
sores, cancers not excepted, are but the
results of natures efforts at puriica.
ton, just to this extent prolonging life.
even when the case proves fatal. The
fact that the escaping matters often
prove eXcoriating, producing sores OF
irritations wherever they touch the
skin, will illustrate their putrid and
poisonous character.
The body becomes impure, in an alb
normal State, from eating impure food
as that of very "tender'' meats-wher
made so, as it often is, by semi-putre
much that all can not be digested. pu
trefying in the stomach or in the bow
els; from failing to breathe sufficiently
Vi pure tir, VI breathing pestiierous uli
md foul vapols; but the inactivity o
the SIX N, the pores being so closed tina
the effete matters can not escape; ant
for general want of cleanliness. In
this condition, nature-always seeking
cleanliness attempts publication
through some of the outlets, acting lik,
the sewers of the city. in the failure o
which, the skin is put "under contribu
tion," the natural escape for most o
this impurity being through the pores
This is sought through eruptive Ns
eases, sores, assesses and even cancers
the discharges from which prove
blessing, all that is thrown OIL bein!
just so much eliminated, so mucl
poison thrown out of the body. just Il
that extent diminishing the occasion 70
disease. There is no sense. no phil
osophy, in the popular idea, in the pasV
or among the ignorant, that ''sores rul
the life away" as only Ialtrid matter
escape, a retention of which, us wo hay
seen, causes "blood-poisoning"
sudden retention of this poison will a
ways produce more or less comm otto
in the system, If not tieath, in extrem
cases. 1t is always safe to promot
such discharges, having "a clean soro,
DIR. ! H. Haa4ord, IN Wa'chnam