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 answered the expectations of physicians and patients, it was administered and continued for a long time in a large number of cases. Moreover, most of the hair dyes which are vended for imparting a "glossy black," or a "lustrous brown," contain this powerful ingredient in considerable quantities, and several cases are on record where ladies, who freely used such nostrums, finished by obtaining the coveted color not only on their hair, but on the whole body. From these causes, there are many persons living who carry on their hands and faces the lasting imprint of this drug.

This is as much as saying that any ready means of removal is not known. Such, in fact, is the case, but still there are instances on record where a successful result is asserted to have been obtained by a persevering use of dilute nitric acid internally, and frequent ablutions in water containing iodide of potassium.

SUNBURN, TAN, AND FRECKLES.

The sun is no friend of a dainty visage. The belles of yore knew this, and jealously guarded their charms from its rays, lest they should become, like Cleopatra,

"With Phœbus' amorous pinches, black."

"The stupid sun;" said a great lady of the days of le Grande Monarque, "all it does is to spoil beauty and show ugliness!"

Now-a-days, we are content to parry its attacks with