BLEACHING A BLACK WOMAN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3536, 7 November 1882, Page 3

BLEACHING A BLACK WOMAN.

Thoro is a colored lady in this city -who, after having been for some time under a peculiar medical treatment, is gradually, from the effect of the drug administered, being changed to white. The physician having charge of the case was found, and after some hesitation volunteered to accompany the reporter to see his patient. The lady is the wife of a mulatto man, at one time a photographer in the city, but now keeping a stationery store, and both are well known. Mrs Ball was born in Fredericksburg, Va., and is at present about sixtyseven years old. Three years ago, after suffering about seventeen years with an ovariad tumor, she called on the doctor. Upon examination he found that to remove it in the usual way would sacrifice life. The only course, in his opinion, was to follow a method of treatment that would give relief from the intense physical suffering which the woman experienced. With this in view he began the administration of a certain drug, the name of which he withholds for the present until he has completed his study of the case, and is ready to give the facts in detail, with theories and deductions, to the medical profession, and through them to the public. Shortly after the treatment ■was begun he noticed white blotches appearing upon the skin, which gradually enlarged and extended over the face, body, and limbs. Just at this time, too, the woman began experiencing relief from her excruciating pains, and from that day to this has improved in health, until she is now better than for twenty-five years. As though in progress with her health, the blotches increased in size, until one-half of her body is as white as the purest Caucasian. She was originally a very dark mulatto. The portions of skin still retaining tbeir original color are cold and clammy, while the whitened parts are warm and animated. The change has been very slow, as it has been going on for nearly three years, and the transformation is only half completed. —San Francisco Newsletter.