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 beauty of the patient will be irrecoverably lost." Its treatment must be early and decisive. Too much care cannot be taken to prevent it fastening on the tissues. All scabs, sores, and pimples in this region should therefore be regarded suspiciously, and if they seem slow in healing, a surgeon's advice should be sought.

From this distressing foe of beauty we shall pass to some by no means so appalling, but nevertheless quite worthy our attention. Some faces are sown with minute, hard, white pimples in the skin, from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea. They are painless, but ruin the beauty of the complexion, and should, therefore, be removed. They occur at all periods of life, and as fate decrees that there shall be many reminders to humble the pride of comeliness, so they are most frequent in the young. The eyelid, both on the inner and the outer side, is one of their chosen seats.

Those who are subject to them should wash daily with soap containing tar, such as can now be readily obtained from druggists. As for removing them, there is only one way known, and that is by puncturing them with the point of an extremely sharp lancet, and squeezing out the contents. No scar will be left if the little operation is carefully done.

We have already spoken of warts on the hands. They are bad enough in that position, but what shall we say to them on the face? Almost daily, in walking through the streets of this city, we see handsome faces