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 Dr. Savignac recommends strongly lotions of Vichy water, night and morning, continued for several minutes, and allowed to dry without wiping. This can certainly do no harm.

LIVER-SPOTS AND MOLES.

An ugly brown patch with distinct outlines sometimes appears on the face, and especially the forehead, at or just below the line of the hair. This is called in common language a "liver-spot." Writers on skin diseases give it a dozen names, so it is useless to mention any of them.

These blotches differ in size, shape, and position, but have an aggravating similarity in being all very ruinous to beauty, and very obstinate in remaining. We have seen them much more frequently in the Mississippi valley than in the Atlantic States, and have been told by others of experience that the ladies of Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Louis, are more liable to them than those of New York and Boston. It may be that the greater dryness of the interior has something to do with this, if it be true.

Though called "liver-spots," they have not always to do with the liver. They rarely show the yellow tinge which characterizes the deposits of bile. Very frequently, however, they arise from some derangement of this or some other organ, and it is useless to attempt their removal until this derangement is set