The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-02-20

Socrates called beauty a short-lived
tyranny, Plato a privilege of nature,
T~heocritus q delightful prejudice,
Theophrastus a silent cheat, Carneades
a solitary kingdom, Homer a glorious
gods. Aristotle affirmed that beauty
was better than all the letters Of recon-
mendation in the world, and yet nom
of these distinguish ed authorities has
left us even a hint of how beauty is to
be perpetuated, or the ravages of age
and disease defed. Time soon blends
the lily and the rose into the pallor of
age, disease dots the fair face with
c%utaneous designations and crimsons
the Roman nose with unsightly Pushes,
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
death2 It 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 i'm
pregnated with a fiery element (which,
when discharged through the pores
upon the surface of the body, infames
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 him
to desist.
Thus do complexional defects merge
into t%orturing disease, and piqued van
ity give place to real suffering. A
little wart on the nose or cheek grows
to the all-devouring lupus, a patch of
letter on the palm of the hand or OF
the limbs suddenly envelopes the body
in its fiery embrace, abruise 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
a dozen, which eat away the vitality,
great peGrl-like scales grow from little
rash-like inhammations in such abun-
dance as to pass credulity and SO on
ma we depict the sutlerings to which
poor human nature is subject, all of
which involve great mental distress
because Of pers Qnal designations.
If there were not another external
disease known, eczema alone would be
a sufficient infection on mankind. 1t
pervades all classes, and descends i'm
partially through generations. While
some are constantly enveloped in it,
others have it 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
distinctive feature is a small watery
blister, which charges an acrid
fluid, causing heat, Inflammation, and
intense itching. Ring-wol.n, letter,
scaled head, dandrutf, belong to this
scaly and itching order of diseases.
Psoriasis, our modern leprosy, with
its mother-of-pearl scale, situated on
q 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
Of minor disorders make up in
part the catalogue Of external diseases
of the skin. Thus far we have made
no ~allusion to those Affections which
are manifestly impurities of the blood,
viz: swelling of the glands of the
throat, ulcers on the neck and limbs.
tumors, assesses, and mercuria,
poisons, with loss of hair, because
the whole list can be comprehended il
the u word scrofula.
1t is in the tire atment of torturing
disfguring hunors and affections OF
the skin, scalp. and blood, with loss O
hair, that the Cuticura remedies have
achieved their greatest success. Orig
inal in composition, scientifically com
pounded, absolutely pure, Interchangeable
in any climate, always ready. and agree
able to the most delicate and sensitive
they present to young and old the mos
successful curative of modern times
This WILDE conside ed strong languag,
by those acquainted with the characIe.
and obstinacy of bloodand skin humor.
but it is justified byinnumerable sue
cesses where all the remedies III meth
DDS in vogue have failed to cure, and
in many cases. to relieve, even.
The Cuticura treatment is at ono,
agreeable, speedy. economical. ant
comprehensive. Bathe the affected
parts freely it'll hot water and Cnti
cura soap, to cleanse the n act o:
erusts and scales, and soften tn,
shickeaed cnsictv. Dry. witllau t hare
rubbing. and Apply C~atielra Qia linen
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