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of color of troubles of the liver or other organs, 

 which the laity naturally enough do, but which 

 physicians, at least, never should, gives plenty of 

 opportunity for the ^ale of patent quack medicines, 

 beauty washes, et cetera, and helps support the 

 newspapers by the advertisements of travelling 

 charlatans. 



"VYe trust now that our readers have, from these 

 chapters on the vegetable parasites of the human 

 skin, derived some idea of what the parasites 

 themselves are, the appearances they produce on 

 the cutaneous envelope and its appendages, the 

 hair and nails, and the means to in some measure 

 get rid of them, or at any rate avoid their plant- 

 ing themselves and growing on the surface of the 

 body. They cannot also but be struck with the 

 excellent opportunity ignorance offers to quackery 

 in reference to these affections. Eemember, an 

 ounce of preventive is worth a pound of cure, 

 and that preventive is simply plenty of soap, and 

 lots of hot water. 



