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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. PIGMENTED SPOTS ON FACE One of the distressing ailments that comes usually toward middle age in women is coffee colored spots, usually on the face, about the eyes --J Ul-p nr, 4tlQ aiiu Luctiu, ..... arms and knees. The cause of these spots is unknown but physicians phy-sicians have found that after correcting any ailments of ovaries and uterus, these spots disappear, disap-pear, quite often. Removal Re-moval of these spots and careful examina- lin rt ttiom iiTirlor Dr. Barton the microscope show that they are not the usual pigmented blood spots nor exactly ex-actly like the spots which occur so often at or during the menopause. In an extract from a medical journal jour-nal published in Montevideo in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. F. Rocca reports a case of pigmented spots on the face cured by injection and local application applica-tion of ovary extract. Twice a week, for a period of several sev-eral months, 5,000 international units of ovary extract (estrone) was administered ad-ministered by injection. These injections in-jections regulated the monthly periods, peri-ods, the nervousness and shock became be-came less and the spots on the face began to clear up. An estrone ointment oint-ment was now applied to the facial spots for 20 days. It was observed that some spots disappeared and others oth-ers became lighter. The ointment treatment of the spots and the injections were continued con-tinued for several months, when the pigmentation had decreased greatly on the face and in many parts of the body. One year after this ovary or gland treatment was stopped, small spots began to appear about the eyes. Now this is only one case, but when we remember that in some of these cases the spots disappear without treatment and that others disappear with the correction of genital ailments, it will certainly be much worth while for our women's specialists and general practitioners also, to try this treatment oh these coffee-colored spots. When we remember how ovary extract in the great majority of cases gives relief from the symptoms symp-toms of the menopause, it is not too much to expect that at last a remedy has been found to remove these embarrassing em-barrassing coffee-colored spots. |