BLEACHING A BLACK WOMAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1224, 6 November 1882, Page 2

BLEACHING A BLACK WOMAN.

™ There is i colored lady in this after having: been for soma tome ;iind%;)j peculiar medical treatment, lis; from the effect ofthedrugadministertdf being changed to white; The. >pbyaituil{ charge of the oase after some hesitation' volunteered' 'to l acoompany the reporter to fiee.Kis pitient] The lady is the wife of & mulatto man, at one time a photosrapher in thati bijirilbiit now keeping & stationary store, and, fiota are well known. Mrs Ball was, Wrh-iii Frederickabnrg, Ya., and ia at' present about Bixty-BBron years old. Three yean ago, after suffering abont seventeen year* with an ovarian tumour, she'cttlled"flH'tlfjr dootnr.. Upon _ examination.,he Voyfid that to remove it in the usual way would \ sacrifice life. The only course, in hii opinion was ro follow a method of treatment that would give- relief from the in* tense physical suffering which the-woraan: experienced, With this in riew be: began the admiriißtratJon of a certain drug, the name of whieh' hs withholds for the proBent until he has completed his study of the case arid is ready to givu the facta in detail. with theories and deductions, to the medical profession, and throttghth'em to, the public. Shortly after the .treaimei'l, was begun he noticed: white,'jblptcHea 1 appearing upon the skin, which gradually enlarged and extended over the;face, body amd limbs. Just, at 'this (irte ; m J the woman be»an experiencing relief fromlher excruciating pains, and from■that'fify to, this has improved in health; untilJsHe'is ! now better than for. twenty,-five yearfli? As though with the blotches increased in size until one* half of her body is as white as tho> purest mulatto. The portions bf skin still retaining their original oolor are fold and clammy, 'while the whitened 'parts are warm and animated.' The; ebanae has been very' Blow, a « it hAa baen' going on for nearly three years,' and' tjieVtransformatipnisonly half oomploied.—San Franciacp Newsletter. , " ,i: '!