Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-14

Socrates called beauty a short-lived
tyranny, Plato a privilege of nature,
Theocritus q delightful prejudice,
Theophrastus a 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 distingui shed authorities has
left us even hint of how beauty Is to
be perpetuated, or the ravagcs 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 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 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 i'm
pregnated with fiery element which,
when discharged through the pores
upon the surface of the body, infiames
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.
little wart 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 gnawing ulcer, which
reaches out it's fangS 30 the sufferers
heart in every paroxysm of pain,
small kernel in the neck multiplies into
a dozen, which eat away the vitality,
great pearl-like scales grow from little
rash-like inflam nations IN such abun-
dance as to pass credulity; and so on
may we depict the sutferings 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
a sufficient, infiiction on mankind. 1t
pervsdes all classes, and descends i'm
partially through generations. While
some are constantly enveloped 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 acrid
All. a h,.,N ia To-,
intense itching; Ring-worm, letter,
SCALED head, dandruff, 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. In
petigo, BARRIERS itch, erysipelas, and n
score 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 impu rifles of the. blood,
viz: swelling of the glands of the
throat, ulcers on t he neck and limbs,
tumors, assesses, and mercurial
poisons, with loss of hair, because
the whole list can be comprehended in
the one word scro fula.
1t Is In the treatment OF torturing,
dlshguring humors and affections of
the skin, scalp. and blood, with loss of
hair, that the Cuticura remedies have
achieved their greatest success. Orig
inaI in compo sition. scientifically com
pounded, absolutely pure, nnchange able
in anyolimates Away 8 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 edstroRg language
by those acquafnt ted With the character
andobstfnacy OF blood aud skin humors
but II Is 5usti6ed by innumerabfe sue
cesses where all t pc REMEDIES andmeth-
DDS In xegpe have failed to curS, and;
in many cases, to relieve, eFen.
The 'Cuticura treatroehs Is At once
agreeable, speedy. econorIcaiS and
compreh ensIve. Battle the affected
parts freely with hot wafer. and lCpti-
curaS oap. to SleaHses the sur ce OF
crusts. and scales, and softer the
thickened cuticte. Dry witheu hard
rubbing, and apply cnticnra DIN tmenI
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