The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-02-27
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?

Socrates called beauty o short-llved
tyranny, Plato a privilege Of nature,
TheOcritus a delightful prejudice,
TheOphrastus a silent cheat, Curneades
a solitary kingdom, Homer q glorious
gift Of nature, Ovid a favor Of the
gods. Aristotle affirmed that beauty
was better than oh the letters Of recon-
mendation I'm the world, and yet none
Of these distinguished authorities has
left us even a hint Of how beauty Is 10
be perpetuated, or the ravugCs Of age
and disease dcacd. Time soon blends
the lily and the rose into the p0llor Of
age, disease dots the fair face with
cutaneous designations and crlmSons
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 blemishee,
what must be the feelings OF those In
whom torturlng humOrs have for
years run riot covering the skin with
scales and sores and charging the
blood with poisonous elements to
become part Of the system until
death2 1t Is vain TO attempt 10 por-
tray such suffering. Death in many
cases might be considered q blessing.
The blood and fluids seem TO be i'm
pregnated with fiery element which,
when discharged through the pores
) upon the surface Of the body, infames
and burns until, IN his efforts for relief,
4 20 patient tears the skin with his
nails, and not until the blood flows
does sufficient relief come to cause him
to desisJ.
Thus do complexional defects merge
into torturng disease, and piqued van
fly give place to real suffering. A
little wart on the nose or cheek grows
TO the all-deyourng lupus, q patch Of
letter on the palm of the hand or on
the limbs suddenly envelops the body
in its fiery embrace, abruise on the leg
expands into q gnawing ulcer, which
reaches out its fangS 10 the sufferers
heart in every paroZysm Of pain, o
small kernel in the neck multiplcs into
o dozen, which eat away the vitality,
great pearl-ike scales grow from little
rash-like infammaions in such abun-
dance as to pass credulity; and so on
may we depict the suherings to which
poor human nature is subject, all of
which involve great mental distress
because of pers Onal designations.
If there were not another external
disease known, eczema alone would be
o sufficient nliction on mankind. 1t
perVGdes all classe7, and descends inn
partially through generations. While
some are constantly enveiOped in 1t,
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 discharges an acTid
fluid, causing heat, Inflammation, and
intense itching. Ring-worm, letter,
scaled head, dandruf, belong to this
scaly and itching order Of diseases.
Psoriasis, our modern leprOsy, with
its mother-Of-pearl 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, crysipelaS, and
score of minor disorders make up ia
part the catalogue of external diseases
of the skin. Thus far we have made
no alusiOn 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 mercurial
ppisons, with loss of hair, because
the whole list can be comprehended in
the one word scro fula.
1t is in the tye atment of torturing,
disfguring 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, interchangeable
in any climate, Away ready, and agree
able to the most delicate and sensitive,
they present to young and old the most
successful curative of modern times.
This will be cOnside ed strong language
by those acquainted with the character
and obstinacy of blood and skin humors
but 1t Is justified by innumerable sue
Cesses where all the remedies and meth
DDS 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 sur ace of
crusts and scales, and soft en- the
thickened cuticle. Dry, without hard
rubbing, and apply Cuticura DIN tment
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