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presents a most loathsome appearance, such as to 

 induce the unfortunate person to submit to almost 

 any treatment — even that of cauterizing with hot 

 iron, employed in old Rome. Nowadays the mi- 

 croscope has shown us the cause of the trouble, 

 and nature points to the cure by the dropping out 

 of the diseased hairs. Epilation, the application 

 of a parasiticide and cleanliness, will very rapidly 

 get rid of the disease. Ignorance of this, or igno- 

 rance of just how this should be done, the all- 

 important point, allows many unfortunate men, 

 not of the lower classes, to go about, a nuisance to 

 themselves and their surroundings, from the really 

 loathsome appearance of a part or the whole of 

 the face. Proper treatment is very efficacious and 

 successful. 



Chloasma, Liver Spots, are the popular names 

 given to the last of the parasitic diseases of the 

 skin we are to speak of, although in reality this 

 cutaneous affection, as we shall see, has nothing 

 whatever to do with true chloasma, or wdth the 

 changed color of the skin accompanying organic 

 or functional troubles of the liver. It is simply 

 because this parasitic disease resembles the others 

 in appearance, that the popular names have been 



