Health, beauty, a fair complexion and a clear skin ... The celebrated abstergent lotion, for the cure of scorbutic eruptions ... the only remedy for effectually clearing the complexion, and removing all diseases of the skin, is prepared by the inventor, and sole proprietor, S. Solomon, M.D.

  • Solomon, Samuel, -approximately 1818.
Date:
[not before 1804]
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Credit: Health, beauty, a fair complexion and a clear skin ... The celebrated abstergent lotion, for the cure of scorbutic eruptions ... the only remedy for effectually clearing the complexion, and removing all diseases of the skin, is prepared by the inventor, and sole proprietor, S. Solomon, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Q a very simple and easy part of the practitioner's employment, from the improve- tiients which have universally resulted from a free spirit of enquiry. lustead of th-e tedious and debilitatirig courses of medicines, which patients went through formerly, and which, perhaps, they are still too frequently obliged to undergo, it is now found, that the greatest number of those complaints are more certainly and speedily removed, by the use of local remedies merely, than they ever were by a contrary course; and that a principal dependence is to be placed upon those which sVe of an astringent and drying quality. ' INTERESTING TO LADIES. It is certainly distressing to a fine woman, on the perfecting of whose face Nature has lavished all her power, to find the complexion discoloured and the features deformed with disgusting pimples, that destroy the effect of all her charms !—And it unfortunately happens, very frequently, that the female sex, when attached by these complaints, suffer much more from them than men ; as the texture of their skin is endowed with a much greater degree of delicacy and sensibility. It is in this case that the imagination, the influence of which on the softer sex is so very extensive, takes the lead, exasperates the disease, and lenders it a thousand times more obstinate ;—and yet Dr. Salomon can assure the public, from assiduous observation and long experience, that these impurities arising from obstructed perspiration, are the easiest of ail others to overcome. The vessels, when once freed from the matter contained in them, and which had become vitiated by stagnation, readily assume the tone and energy neces¬ sary for cutaneous secretion. Dr. Darwin, in his Zoonomia, remarks, “ that when the stomach and intes¬ tines are filled with their proper food, not Only the motions of the gastric glands, the pancreas, liver, and lacteal vessels are excited into action ; hut at the same time the whole tribe'of irritative motions are excited with greater energy • and a greater degree of warmth, colour, plumpness, and moisture, is given to the skin, from the increased action of those gland’s called capillary vessels. But by the addition of certain kinds of stimulants to ouj food, the stomach and throat are excited into a motion whose direction is contrary to the natural one, and they regurgitate the materials which they contain, instead of carrying them forward. At the time of these inverted efforts of the stomach, not only the lymphatics, which open their mouths into the stomach, but those of the skin also, are, for a time, inverted ; for sweats are sometimes pushed out during the efforts of vomit¬ ing without an increase of heat. u When any of these capillary glands are stimulated into greater irritative actions than is natural, they secrete a more copious material, . which is also more viscid than usual. This is more or less troublesome or noxious, according to the importance of the functions of the part affected ; on the skin, where this secre¬ tion ought naturally to evaporate, it. becomes so viscid as to adhere to the mem¬ brane, and produces the scurf on the heads of many people. When these ca¬ pillary glands become inflamed, a still more viscid or even cretaceous humour is produced upon the surface of the membranes, which may be the cause of various disorders, aiui among others of those hard tumours of the legs which are gene¬ rally, but mis takingly, called scorbutic. <( Sometimes the mouths of the lymphatic vessels, and sometimes the belly or glandular part, becomes totallj^ or partially paralytic. In the former case, where the mouths of the cutaneous lymphatics become torpid or quiescent,, the fluid secreted on the skin erodes it by its saline acrimony, and produces an eruption termed fyenpes.