Show ARSENIC AND AMMONIA Remarkable Contrast in the Effect of Two Poisons on the Complexion The slow absorption of many poisons changes in some more or less modified form i the complexion but arsenic and ammonia show their effects about as quickly as any The popular belief that arsenic clears the complexion has led many silly women to kill themselves with it in small continued doses It produces a waxy ivorylike appearance appear-ance of the skin during a certain stage of the poisoning but its terrible after effects have become too well known to make it of common use us a cosmetic The effects of ammonia upon the complexion com-plexion are directly the opposite to that of arsenic The first symptom of ammonia poisoning which appears among those who work in ammonia factories is a discoloration of the skin of the nose and forehead This gradually extends over the face until the complexion has a stained blotched and unsightly un-sightly appearance With people who take ammonia into their systems in smaller does as with their water or food these striking symptoms do not appear BO soon The only effect of the poison that is visible I for a time is a general unwholesomeness and sallowuess of the complexion Many people are slowly absorbing ammonia am-monia poison without knowinc it The use of ammonia in the manufactures has greatly increased of late and it is unquestionably used as an adulterant in certain food preparations pre-parations Official analyses have plainly showed its use even in such cheap articles of every day consumption as baking pow dows The continued absorption ofam irouia in oven minute quantities as ana an-a J adulterant in food is injurious not merely from its effect upon the complexion but because it destroys the coating of the stomach stom-ach and causes dyspepsia and kindred Professor Long of Chicago is authority for the statement that if to fifty million parts of water there is ono part of ammonia ammo-nia the water is dangerous |