The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-08
BEAUTY AND PURITY Ancient and Modern Ideas on the
 Subject. Time and Disease the Effacing Agents of Beauty. What Has Science Done to Restore the Lily
 and the Rose?
MOdern Idea Subject.
Ancient and

tyranny, Plato a privilege of nature, Theocritus a delightful prejudice, Theophrastussa silent cheat, Carneades a solitary kingdom, Homer a glorious gift of nature, Ovid a favor of the gods. Aristotle affirmed that beauty was better than all the letters of recon mendation in the world, and yet none of these distinguished authorities has left us even hint of how beauty is to be perpetuated, or the ravages of age and disease defied. Time soon blends the lily and the rose into the pallor of age, disease dots the fair face with cutaneous disfgurations and crimsons the Roman nose with unsightly flushes, moth, if not rust, corrupts the glory of eyes, teeth, and lips yet beautiful by defacing the complexion, and fills the sensitive soul with agony unspeakable.
 If 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 elements to be- come a part of the system until death It is vain to attempt to portray such
 
 be considered a blessing. The blood and fluids seem to be impregnated with fiery element which, when dis charged through the pores upon the surface of the body, inflames and burns until, in his efforts for relief, the patient. tears the skin with his nails, and not until the blood flows does sufficient relief come to cause him to desist.
 Thus do complexional defects merge into torturing disease, and piqued van ity give place to real suffering A little wort on the nose or cheek grows to the all-devouring lupus, a patch of letter on the palm of the hand or on the limbs suddenly envelopes the body in its fiery embrace, bruise on the leg expands into a gnawing ulcer, which reaches out its fangs to the sufferers heart in every paroxysm of pain, a small kernel in the neck multiplies into a dozen, which eat away the vitality great pearl-like scales grow from little rash-like inflamations in such abun- dance as to pass credulity; and so on may we depict the sufferings to which poor human nature is subject, all of which involve great mental distress because of personal disfigurations.
 Every school girl or boy knows that if pore in the skin in his or her face becomes clogged little black head appears, and surrounding it little pimple. If dozen pores become clog ged there are dozen black heads and pimples. So it is With acne. In salt rheum. or, as 1t is technically called, eczema, the cause of the disease seems to be in the blood, from thesfact that the fluids which pour out through the !. tubes are charged with a poisonous element that creates the most intense ] itching and violent inflammation and rapidly destroys the outer or scarf skin This dreadful form of skin dis ease attacks all ages, and may ire quently be seen fully developed in in- fants at birth. In such cases it is often called milk crust, sealed head etc, but there Is no doubt of its real nature, and that it is an inherited humor.
 If there were not another external disease known, eczema would be sufficient affliction on mankind. It pervades all classes, and descends i'm partially through generations. While some are constantly enveloped in it, others have 1t 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 dis tinetive feature is a small watery bls- ter, which discharges an acrid fluid, causing heat, inflammation and intense itching. Ring-worm, letter sealed head, dandruff, belong to this scaly and itching order of diseases. Psoriasis, our modern leprosy, with it's mother of-pearl scale, situated on a reddened base, which bleeds upon the removal of the scale, Is to be dreaded and avoided, as of old. Impetigo, barber's itch, erysipelas and a score of minor disorders make up in part the cata- logue of external diseases of the skin. Thus far we have made no allusion to those afflictions which are manifestly impurities of the blood viz: swelling of the glands of the throat, ulcers on the neck and limbs, tumors, abcesses, and mercurial poisons, with loss of hair, because the whole list can be comprehended in the one word scrofula.
 It is in the treatment of torturing, disfiguring humors and affections of the skin, scalp and blood. with loss of hair, that the Cuticura remedies have achieved their greatest success. Orig inal in composition, scientifically com pounded, absolutely pure, unchange- able in any climate, always ready, and agreeable to the most delicate and sensitive, they present to young and old the most successful curatives of modern times. This will be considered strong language by those acquainted with the character and obstinacy of blood and skin humors, but it is iusti- fled by innumerable successes where all the remedies and methods in vogue have failed to cure, and, in many cases. to relieve, even.
 The Cuticura treatment is at once agreeable, speedy, economical and com prehensive. Bathe the affliced parts freely with hot water and Cuticura soap, to cleanse the surface of crusts and scales, and soften the thickened cuticle. Dry, without hard rubbing. and apply Cuticura Ointment to allay itch ing, irritation and inflammation. and soothe and heal, and, lastly, take Cuti- cura Resolvent, to cool and cleanse the blood. This treatment affords instant relief, permits rest and sleep in the seyerest forms of eczema and other itching, burning and scaly humors, and points to speedy, permanent, and economical cure of torturing, disfigur- ing humors, eczema, rashes. and in- fammations, from infancy to age. when all other remedies and the best physi- clans fail. The remedies constitutine the Cuticura system will ranay ,,,