The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-19
A BEAUTIFUL HOSPITAL.
INFIRMARY FOR CORRECTING THE
PHYSICAL IMPERFECTIONS OF
WOMEN.

Graduated Physician Explains How
She Came to Adopt the Profession,
and Suggests That Beauty Insti-
tutes Could Be Established All
over the Country with Profit and
Benefit to Every One Concerned.
The Treatment Is simple, and
Aims to Ensure Clear, Rosy Skins,
Bright, vigorous Hair, Symmetri-
cal Figures and Glowing Health to
Its Women Patients.
New York, March 17.-"What first gave
me the idea of this business?'' said DR..
Matilda S. Edwards, the owner, general
manager and house physician of the In
firmary for the Physical Perfection of Wo-
men, when questioned about her work and
experience why, the knowledge that
all women long to be beautiful. l know 1t
is generally called the Beauty Hospital,
and l think the name suits it very we'll
indeed.
Il am from Indiana and came TO New
York for the purpose of studying medi-
cine. After taking my degree l located
here, and tried every means in my power
to secure a good paying practice. At the
end of my second year I was as nearly dis
heartened as a woman can very wei De
and yet keep going.
1T is not an easy matter to confess that
you have failed in your chosen work, and
before making the admission you may be
sure 1 thought of many different means
for earning my bread. Professional mas
seures, women who steam and rub the
faces of other women for the purpose of
improving their compilations. always APP
peared 10 thrive, while after two years L
could not count on making enough an one
year TO pay a months expenses. l was
sore, and thought bitterly of women who
spent money willingly for such trifes.
Then flashed on my mind the question,
Is~beauty trihe? Being a woman, l an
swered No Then 1 set to work and
evolved plan for my infrmary.
In less than six weeks the Beauty Hos
pltaT was opened, with four patients.
can only accommodate twenty-five, and
since the first six months the infrmary
has always been full. Our waiting list is
large, and as soon as one woman is dis
charged as cured, there is another to take
her place.
Are our patients ever really I'll? No,
;,
come TO us frequently from other hospitals
where they have undergone some treat
ment or operation. They want to be put
in shape before returning to their friends.
In the majority of such cases rest, with
the proper amount of exercise and food,
is all that is required. We give 1t TO
them, and, as a result, they go home
looking their best.
"Of course, we have a number of wo-
men and girls with absolute blemishes to
be removed or cured. In every instance
they are attended TO by physicians who
make specialties of such cases. 1t is sur
prising to know how many women grow
TO maturity with some physical defect
which could have been easily cured or
prevented when they were small children.
So many have malformed feet, spider-like
legs and arms and fiat chests
rs there a cure for spindling limbs?
Why, certainly. OF one thing be assured
there is a way TO develop and perfect
every healthy human body. The ground
work is health. When we. get a patient
in a good physical condition, then we feel
confident, of curing their defects. Legs
and arms can be either enlarged or made
smaller, according to the treatment.
I'VE have a patient who came to us
weighing 81 pounds. She is 25 and had
literally worked herself to the verge of
the grave. She was fat-chested, her neck
was shriveled and her face lined until
she looked fully 45. She has been with
us nine months, and is as near perfec-
ton physically as any woman you ever
saw. There is not a line on her face,
and no one would ever credit her with
a day over p. Her treatment was the
right sort of food, plenty of rest, the
necessary amount of exercise and rub
bling out the lines of care and worry from
her face She goes out from us a healthy
woman, without a physical defect from
the crown of her head to the soles of her
feet. There is not corn on her feet a
roughness on her skin, and her hair is as
vigorous and as glossy as one could wish
How about women and girls with spinal
diseases" DIR. Edwards shook his head
dscouragingly That depends. We never
take incurables No one is put on our
waiting list without a previous examina-
ton by some medical man or woman on
whose Judgment We can place perfect re-
lance.
I'VE have great many applications
from women who are disfgured my pox-
marks. and in many instances have effect
ed perfect cures. But that depends entire
ly on the depth of the marks. Some are
too deep and nothing can be done Hairs
from the face can not be removed perma-
nently in every instance. But if removed
every few months by the electric needle
in the hands of an expert they will gradu-
ally become less vigorous and in time the
roofs will die. l can say, without fear
of contributions from any reputable physi-
clan that a bad complexion can always be
improved if the general health is properly
| looked after.
| Now about my infirmary as business
| enterprise. ! am never puzzled about MAX
| ing both ends meet now. have as many
| clients as l can attend to and they pay
we'll My work Is founded on my knowl-
| edge of medicine, and the services of a
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