The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-04-17
THE BEAUTY OF DEATH.
The Dangers of ArsenIca1 Toilet Prcpara-
tionR


The Dangers of ArsenIca1 Toilet Prcpara-
tions.
A woman of ordinary intelligence
ought to know without being told that
arsenical toilet preparations are danger.
GUS to the health, and yet not q week
passes that am not in receipt of letters,
most of them showing thought aud abili.
ty, asking me to recommend some cos.
metic for the elimination of pimples, aud
requesting to be told if arsenic is as safe
for an internal medicine as it is for q
complexion wash. These correspondents
know that arsenic Isl deadly poison, and
yet they talk about its use as if it were
the simplest and safest drug in the world.
Arsenical doses will put an end to pim-
Piles, and, what is more, an end to the
life of the person using them. | am not
now speaking from generalizations or
from what have heard, but from abso.
lutte personal knowledge. Ono friend Of
mine, beautiful young woman, was
afflicted with an eruption upon the hands.
This was not only exceedingly painful
but very Notifying. Her own family
physician, man Of common sense as
we'll as OF scientific attainment, prescribed
certain blood remedies, but refused to
give her anything to act upon the condi-
tion-in other words declined to doctor
symptoms.
THE.PELLETs OF ARSENIC.
The patient became irritable and dis.
satisfied and finally consulted newly
aedged NJ. D., who, through some adver-
tising dodge, had been brought promi.
nently before the public. She returned
to her homs with pellets Of arsenic to be
taken during the day, and an arsenical
lotion to be used morning and night, and
piece of advice. This was not 10 notice
any criticism of the treatment, and to
say to those who condemned arsenic that
such an objection was only an old wo.
mans whin, which medical science had
satisfactorily disposed Of A permanent
cure WAS guaranteed in six weeks. At
the end of that time my friends hands
were as white and as smooth as an in-
fant's, but my friend was in the agonies
of death. The eruption had been driven
inward instead of out of the system, and
quick consumption was the result.
Another victim, young man, was also a
friend of mine. His life was embittered
by pimple1 which literally covered his
face. "a bad tenant is better out than
in" his own good doctor sententiously
told him. But he could not wait for
slow methods, and 80 foil into the hands
of another murderer. The last time I
saw this promising youth before he died
be called my attention with good deal
of pride, to the improved condition of his
face. eyes," I replied, "but you are
very pale, and how about that cough ?"
"Oh, the Doctor says that is only bron-
chial, and be is giving me medicine, for
it, but don't care cent for the cough"
KILLED BY THE USE OF ARSENIC.
Such cases could BIZ indefinitely multi
piled, but 1 have dwelt upon these
because watched them from start 10
finish, and am as sure as am of my
own existence that my friends were killed
by the use of arsenic. That arsenic in
the hands Of akillful physicians is some.
times help in certain acute diseases I
am ready to admit, es l admit the value
OF strychnine and stomach pumps, but
for steady or even occasional use in erup-
tive diseases, chronic or otherwise, it is
simply a deadly cure. I do not know
that all the complexion lotions contain
arsenic, but I do that every woman who
has an intellect above that of a jelly fish,
should know the Ingredients Of the stuff
she uses as a medicinal wash or beauti-
fer.
In late interview with one of our
most distinguished physicians WAS told
that the folly Of women with their poi
sonous face washes, their compressed and,
in many cases, Tapped ribs, their heavy
petticoats and elaborate dress skirts pull.
ing down and inAaming the Most delicate
of the vital organs, was quite equal to
the folly Of men in drinking and carous.
ing, and for his part he thought that the
effect of womau's folly upon her health
was greater than the dissipation of men
upon theirs. "Wby do not women do
more for each other" this gentleman
asked. "Why do not those who have
lost it, or who never hsl it? Look at
the immense temperance societies organ.
lied, and controlled by women all over
this country" he went on, "Look at
some of the leaders of these enterprises,
as they address their meetings in excell-
ent English, but no breath to speak of.
Look at their girted-in waists, their
hips. Because these women do not drink
intoxicating liquors, they imagine they
are temperate. The fact is, that many
of them are quite as far off the track Of
health and common sense and decency
as men, and need missionaries quite as
much as men. Then look at the candy
that women eat. 1t seens fully as re.
spectacle for one to ruin digestion by
wine as by bonbons. So you see after
all, that bad as we are, it is six of one
and half dozen of the other"
TRUTH IN THE LECTURE.
There was so much truth in this little
lecture, that nettled as I certainly was,
mn argument to combat il with, I could