The Removal of Tattoo Marks.
India-hoc markings in the skin are often the source of much annoyance in alter life to tho?e who have been tattooed in youth. The sditcr of the Medical Press states that nothing but the knife or an active esoharotio will produce a satisfactory result. He holds that the cutia mmt bo destroyed. Dr. Neala, of London, however, olamis that he has secured good results with sodii ethyl&s, firat suggested by Dr. B. W. Kiobardson. He citea the case of a gentleman who. in hi 3 younger days, had a palm tree tattooed on bis arm and an elaborate bracelet on his wrist, who has quite lost all the dark matter, etc., the skin being left in mnny eased quite natural, although of course, there is still more or lees of a scar but this diminishes month by month.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2033, 18 July 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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