The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
A PECULIAR CASE.

a Massachusetts, Man Turns Els Skin
Into Souvenir Purses.
Shed His Cuticle q Second Time
This Year for the Thirty
Second Time.
Having shed his skin from neck to
foot two weeks ago, Selig Goodman,
OF No. % Washington street, Worces-
ter, Mass, is undergoing a second
process OF shedding his cuticle like a
black snake. Worcester physicians
who have studied the peculiar case
say it is the most remarkable they
have heard OF. Goodman says they
are not more puzzled than physicians
in Philadelphia, Pittsburg and in
Europe, where he has made 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 a few
days after the old skin was removed.
BE has given strips Of hide to his ac,,
quaintances. When they heard that
oe was to have another change OF skin
be was besieged with requests for sou,
venir patches.
"The second shedding which I am
undergoing he said Wednesday, is
the first have had that is not pain
ful. All ask is relief from pain. l
have given up hope Of being cured.
Tue pain l suffer is what annoys
me. Otherwise I do not mind it. At
ter getting a new skin I feel like a
sixteen,year-old boy. In the seven
weeks since the first shedding began
have lost 25 pounds. I weighed l65
pounds and now tip the scale at l40,
am beginning to feel strong agar.
The secono change is not weakening
half so much as the first one.
II have peeled the skin from my
body, legs and arms. / am letting it
harden on my hands and feet. It is
the second process this year, and it is
the first that I have undergone that
is not painful. Before the skin be.
gins to harden I suffer with a rash
which is torturous.
II expect in two days time to fin.
ish the second round. By Sunday 1
will be all right, for at least one year." !"
MI. Goodman showed two patches
Of skin, each three by four inches,
taken f1c,o the palms Of bis hands at
the first shedding. The lines are
plainly visible. The skin is hard, and
by tanning they will make covering
for e real handmade handbag, he
says.
be continued, but do not care to
make capital out of it. / give them
to acquaintance. I will have these
two patches made into a souvenir
pocketbook. Z have quit trying to
learn the cause or cure for it. Every
physician whom I have seen admits
that it puzzles him."
Goodman was born in Tilsit, Prus
sia, Germany, June 26, 1864. he was
reared across on the Russian border,
where his parents stilllive. His grand
father on bis fathers side and grand
mother's side are living, and each is
nearly 100 years old. BE has four
brothers, three Of them in the Uaited
States, and one sister. None Of them
is affected the way he is. His father
is grain, merchant and well to-do.
''I was eight years old when first
shed my skin," he said. Il was taken
to Koenigsberg, where DR.. Kaburok,
specialist OF skin diseases. said he
had never heard OF similar case. o.:
all the different treatments have un.
dergone, none Of them cured. DR..
Bradford treated rne fifteen years ago,
in Philadelphia, and I was in bed
twenty.six weeks. Last year Dr..
John Mofatt, of Philadelphia, was
my attending physician. He advised
outtermilk and a light diet. DR..
Nightingale indorsed this advice, and
adds salye. Usually it takes from six
to tsn weeks for one shedding. This
year will go through with Two in
seven weeks.
''The skin on my feet is twice as
thick as that on my hand. I am say.
ing it for an acquaintance, who wants
the patches for a wallet"
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