MAY - Our Skin - Window on health or what the elders knew
There is nothing more beautiful or attractive than a skin glowing with the magnetism of health. Those who unfortunately do not possess it endeavor in vain to beautify their skin by using salves and ointments, not realizing that the seat of the trouble is internal and that they have to remove the cause, before they can expect the removal of the effect. Benedict Lust (1929, p. 254)
We should never allow ourselves to forget that the skin is an organ of sensation, respiration, absorption, excretion and stimulation, and that like every other organ in the body its health depends upon exercise of its several functions to a normal degree. Dr. Pringle (De Quer, 1921)
