The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-06-23
A PECULIAR CASE.
A Massachusetts, Man Turns His Skin
Into Souvenir Purses.
Shed His CutioIo n Second Time
This Year for the Thirty
Second Time.

Having shed his skin from neck tt
foot two weeks ago, Selig Goodman
of No. % Washington street, Worces
ter, Mass, is undergoing a second
process OF shedding his cutlcle like 6
black snake. Worcester physicians
who have studied the peculiar case
say 1t Is the most remarkable they
have heard Of Goodman says they
are not more puzzled than physicians
In Philadelphia, Plttsburg and In
Europe, where he has made a change.
For thirty two years he has had new
set OF skin each year and in some
years two changes. This is one CT
the years when he will have two new
sets.
Before the process Of the first she'd
| ding was complete, Goodman noticed
another layer Of skin, under the outer
cuticle, which began to harden few
days after the old skin was removed
He has given strips Of hide to his ac-
quaintances. When they heard that
he was to have another change of skin
he was besieged with requests for sou
venir patches.
THE second shedding which 1 am
undergoing he said Wednesday, lis
the first have had that is not pain
full. All ask Is relief from pain. l
have given up hope Of being cured.
The pain 1 suffer Is what annoys
me. Otherwise l do not mind 1T. At
ter getting a new skin l feel like a
sixteen-year- old boy. In the seven
weeks since the first shedding began
have lost 25 pounds. 1 weighed 165
pounds and now tip the scale at 14O
am beginning to feel strong agaip.
The second change is not weakening
half so much as the first one.
have peeled the skin from my
body, legs and arms. l am letting it
harden on my hands and feet 1t is
the second process this year, and it is
the first that l have undergone that
Is not painful. Before the skin be-
| gius to harden l suffer with a rash
which Is torturous.
Il expect in two days time to fin
ish the second round. BY Sunday 1
will be all right, for at least one year."
Mr.. Goodman showed two patches
of skin, each three by four inches,
| taken from the palms of his hands at
the first shedding. The lines are
plainly visible. The skin Is hard, and
by tanning they will make covering
for real hand made handbag, he
says.
I have been offered s25 for these, .,
he continued, but do not care to
make capital out of it. 1 give them
to acquaintances. / will have these
two patches made into a souvenir
pocketbo *. 1 have quit trying to
learn the cause or a cure for it. Every
| physician whom have seen admits
that it puzzles him."
Goodman was born in Tilsit, Prus
sla, Germany, June 26, 1864. He was
reared across on the Russian border,
where his parents still live. His grand.
| father on his fathers side and grand
mothers side are living, and each Is
nearly 100 years old. He has four
brothers, three OF them in the U4ited
States, and one sister. None of them
is affected the way he is. His father
is grain merchant and we'll to-do.
Il was eight years old when l first
shed my skim" he said. Il was taken
TO Koenigsberg, where DR.. Kahurok,
specialist OF skin diseases. said he
mad never heard Of similar case. Oh
all the different treatments l have un.
dergone, none OF them cured. DIR.
Bradford treated me fifteen years ago,
In Philadelphia, and L was in bed
twenty.six weeks. Last year Dr..
John Moifatt, Of Philadelphia, was
my attending physician. He advised
outtermilk and light diet. DR..
Nightingale Endorsed this advice, and
adds salve. Usually it takes from six
to ten weeks for one shedding. This
year l will go through with two in
seven weeks.
The skin on my feet Is twice as
thick as That on my hand. lam saw
ing t-or an acquaintance, who wants
the patches for wallet"