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 Outiolo n second Time
This Year for tho Thirty
Second Time.

This Year for tho Thirty
Second Time.
Having shed his skin from neck tc
foot two weeks ago, Selig Goodman,
Of No. % Washington street, Worces.
ter, Mass, is undergoing a second
process OF shedding his cutlcle like q
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, Pittsburg and in
Europe, where he has made change.
For thirty two years he has had a 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 am
undergoing he said Wednesday, is
the first have had that Is not pain
full ALI ask Is relief from pain. l
have given up hope Of being cured.
| srItho In, 7 Is, hot
me. Otherwise do not mind it. At
ter getting a new skin 1 feel like q
sixteen year old boy. In the seven
weeks since the first shedding began
l have lost 25 pounds. / weighed 165
pounds and now tip the scale at lao.
l am beginning to feel strong agair.
The second change is not weakening
half 80 much as the first one.
i have peeled the skin from my
body, legs and arms. am letting it
harden on my hands and feet. 1t is
the second process this year, and it is
the first that 1 have undergone that
Is not painful. Before the skin be-
gius to harden l suffer with rash
which Is torturous.
Il expect in two days time to fin
ish the second round. BY Sunday L
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 a covering
for real hand made handbag, he
says:
II have been offered s25 for these, y
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 cure for it. Every
physician whom 1 have seen admits
that 1T puzzles him."
Goodman was born in Tilsit, Prus
sia, Germany, June %, 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 u uitaii
States, and one sister. None Of them
is affected the way he Is. His father
is a grain merchant and we'll to-do.
was eight years old when l first
she'd my skin," he said. Il was taken
to Koeniga berg, where DR.. Kahurok,
a specialist Of skin diseases. said he
mad never heard OF a similar case. o;
all the different treatments have un.
dergone, none OF them cured. DIR.
Bradford treated me fifteen years ago,
in Philadelphia, and | was in he'd
twentysix weeks. Last year DE-.
John Motfatt, Of Philadelphia, was
my attending physician. He advised
outtermilk and q light diet. DIR.
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. 1 am saw
ing it for an acquaintance, who wants
the patches for 9 wallet"