The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-01
Ancient and Modern
on the Subject.
Time and Disease the Ell
Agents Of Beauty.
What Has Science Done to Restore the Lily
and the Rose

Socrates called beauty a short-lived
tyranny, Plato a privilege of nature,
Theocritus a delightful prejudice,
Theophrastus a silent cheat, Carneades
solitary kingdom, Homer a glorious
g0t of nature, Ovid a favor of the
gods. Aristotle affirmed that beauty
was better than all the letters of rec
concentration in the world, and yet
none of these distinguished authorities
has left us even a hint of how beauty
is to be perpetuated, or the ravages of
age and disease defied. Time soon bends
the lily and the rose into the pallor of
age, disease dots the fair face with
cutaneous designations 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 feelings 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
become a part of the system until
death? 1t is vain to attempt to por-
tray such suffering. Death in many
cases might be considered a blessing.
The blood and fluids seem to be inn
pregnated with a fiery element which,
when discharged 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
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little wart on the nose or cheek grows
to the all-devouring lupus, patch of
letter on the palm of the hand or on
the limbs suddenly envelopes the body
in its fiery embrace, a bruise on the leg
expands into a gnawing ulcer, which
reaches out it's fangs to the sufferers
heart in every paroXysm of pain, a
small kernel in the neck multiplies into
dozen, which eat away the vitality,
great pearl-like scales grow from little
rash-like in1ammations in such album
dance as to pass credulity; and so on
may we depict the sufferings to which
poor human nature is subject, all of
which involve a great mental distress
because of personal designations.
Every school girl or boy knows that
if a pore in the skin in his or her face
becomes c'0gged a little black head
appears, and surrounding it a little
clogged there are a dozen black heads
and pimples. So it is with acne. In
salt rheum, or, as it is technically
called, eczema, the cause of the dis
ease seems to be in the blood, from
the fact 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
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form of skin disease attacks all ages,
and may frequently be seen fully
developed in infants at birth. In such
cases it is often called milk crust,
SCALED head, etc, but there is no doubt
of it's real nature, and that it is an in
herited humor.
If there were not another external
disease known, eczema would be a
sufficient infection, on mankind. 1t
perVades all classes, and descends i'm
partially through generations. While
some are constantly enve.oped in it,
others have it confined to small
patches in the ears, on the scalp, on
the breats, on the palms of the hands,
on the limbs, etc, but everywhere it's
distinctive feature is a small watery
blister, which discharges an acrid
fluid, causing heat, Inflammation, and
intense itching. Ring-worm, letter,
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scaly and itching order of diseases.
Psoriasis, our modern leprosy, with
its mother-of-pea scale, situated on
a Redeemed base, which bleeds upon
the removal of the scale is to be
dreaded and avoided, as of old. I'm
petigo, BARRIERS itch, erysipelas, and a
score of minor disorders make up in
part the catalogue of external diseases
Of the skin. Thus far we have made
Ill
are manifestly impurities of the blood
viz: swelling of the glands of the
throat, ulcers on the neck and limbs,
tumors, assesses, and mercur.al
poiSons, with loss of hair, because the
whole list can be comprehended in the
one word, scrofula.
1t 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 i'll composition, scientifically COM
pounded. absolutely pure, unchangeabe
in any climate, always ready and agree
able to the most delicate and sensitive,
they present to young and old the most
successful curatives of modren times.
This will be considered strong language
by those acquainted with the character
and obstinacy of blood and skin hum
OTIS, uuI IL is JuSlllleQ Dy l1nunlefa Die
successes where all the remedies and
mthods in vogue have failed to cure,
and, in many cases, to relieve even.
The Cuticura treatment is at once
agreeable speedy, economical and
comprehensive. Battle the affected
parts freely with hot water and Cuti-
cura soap, to cleanse the surface of
cursts and scales, and soften the
thickened cuticle. Dry, without hard
rubbing, and apply Cuticura Ointment
to allay itching, irritation, and infam-
nation, and soothe and heal, and lastly
take Cuticura Resolvent, to cool and
cleanse the blood. This treatment af-
fords instant relief, permits rest and
sleep in the severest forms of eczema 4,
and other itching, burning, and scaly |
humors, and points to a speedy, perma- |
nent and economical cure of torturing,
dishguring humors, eczemas, rashes, |
and inflammations, from, infancy to |
age, when all other remedies and the |
best physicians fail. The remedies con-
stituing the Cuticura system will re- |
pay an individual scrutiny of their re- |
markable properties.
Cuticura Soap contains in a modified |
form the medicinal properties of Cuti- |
cura Ointment. the great skin cure. and |
purest and sweetest of emollients. com |
bined with the most delicate and re-
treshing Of flower odors 1t is absolute |
ly pure and no ingredient entering its
composition is in the slightest degree |