Health, beauty, a fair complexion and a clear skin ... The celebrated abstergent lotion, for the cure of scorbutic eruptions ... the only remedy for effectually clearing the complexion, and removing all diseases of the skin, is prepared by the inventor, and sole proprietor, S. Solomon, M.D.

  • Solomon, Samuel, -approximately 1818.
Date:
[not before 1804]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Health, beauty, a fair complexion and a clear skin ... The celebrated abstergent lotion, for the cure of scorbutic eruptions ... the only remedy for effectually clearing the complexion, and removing all diseases of the skin, is prepared by the inventor, and sole proprietor, S. Solomon, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HEALTH, BEAUTY, A FAIR COMPLEXION AND A CLEAR SKLV. £! Nothing contributes so much to our general success in Life as an engaging first Appearance.”—‘■Chesterfield. *c A good Appearance is the best Letter of Recommendation.”—Spectator. THE CELEBRATED ABSTERGENT. LOTION, FOR THE CURE OF Scorbutic eruptions, Coarseness, Redness, Pimples, &c. on the Face, Hands and Neck, THE ONLY REMEDY FOR EFFECTUALLY CLEARING THE COMPLEXION, AND REMOVING ALL DISEASES OF THE SKIN, :£S PREPARED BY THE INVENTOR, AND SOLE PROPRIETOR, S. SOiLOMON, M,B. GILEAD-HOUSE, NEAR LIVERPOOL, Author of “ The Guide to Healthand other vuluablc Works. To the Nobility, Gentry, and Public in general. This LOTION, which for a series of years has been universally admired by the Nobility and Gentry, is the most elegant, fragrant, mild, safe and valuable Liquid or Wash, possessed of superior qualities in cleansing, clearing, and soften- in the skin, as well as for freeing it from cutaneous eruptions, so detrimental to female beauty: It gently restores the skin to a degree of fairness and purity beyond the powers of description. It has been commonly considered art unsafe and dangerous practice to attempt the cure of such eruptions in any other way than by correcting the fluids which at first were supposed to have produced them; that this opinion should have re¬ mained so long uncontroverted, by regular practitioners, is somewhat singular ; as it appears, from the writings of many authors, that those complaints were constantly and easily cured, as they still are, with local external applications only. ERUPTIONS ON THE SKIN. • The general notion, which prevailed with respect to these disorders, and which seemed to have no other foundation than antiquity for its suppoit, it was ima¬ gined, would soon have been overturned.—The treatment of cutaneous disoiders, having been, very perplexed and intricate, it is now hoped will soon broom*