Show INJURIOUS EFFECTS OF COSME 1 TICS C S I 1 an eminent western physician in a communication in a late number of the medical and surgical reporter makes the following allusion to what he e calls a serious evil pervading the american community to heighten their beauty in the eyes of admiring gentlemen the ladies ladles are resorting to various cosmetics in the shape of washes powders and paint which are put up and lauded to the skies shies by greedy and unprincipled knaves calling themselves druggists as being sovereign remedies for all the evils which beset a fair complexion the ladles ladies ought to know that all these preparations pa rations are more or less injurious to the skin when used habitually and some of them even poisonous and dangerous to health and life one person in this community has suffered nearly everything but death for the past two years besides expending a small fortune upon several doctors who did her no good because they did not understand the cause of the trouble I 1 have satisfactorily ascertained that it was nothing more nor less than the use of a cosmetic composed wholly nate of lea iea lealand lead dand and water this is sold by druggists who obtain it from new york and chicago put up in beautifully stained glass bottles and labeled with a high sounding name the lady above referred to has the usual symptoms of lead colic followed by paralysis of the flexors of the wrists since discarding this cosmetic she is recovering the use of other her hands and her general health is improving mp roving the test used is the following shake up the bottle and pour a little of the mixture into a wine wineglass gla gia s add a few drops of nitric acid which dissolves the carbonate making a transparent solution to this add a few grains of iodide of potassium and there is produced a beautiful yellow iodide of lead precipitated in absolution of nitrate of potash leavenworth bulletin phenic or ear car carbolic bolle acid noticed of late as a powerful disinfectant has been found a most valuable remedy in certain diseases in sheep dr calvert in a recent lecture says the cure of scab is eff effected acted by a single dip in water containing a small quantity of the acid for foot rot a mixture is made of the acid and a plaster which is made to adhere to the animals foot for two or three days preventing the contact of air but if the flock be numerous a shallow tray made of stone is filled with the medicated mixture and the sheep made to pass through it cattle cease to be annoyed with flies if washed with a very weak solution of this acid why do you drive such a EL pitiful looking creature as that why dont you put a heavier coat of flesh on himell him said a traveler to an irish cart driver A heavier coat of flesh by the powers the poor critter can hardly carry what little there is on him now |