Itching is sometimes caused during the change of seasons due to the effect of the changing temperature on the nerves of the skin. To rub the skin with oil for two or three days to soften the dead cells and to aid their removal from the surface will secure a better circulation in the skin and help to eliminate the cause of the itching. A free drinking of water, fresh air, and exercise will help the condition. [Sidenote: Acne] The rapidly changing system of the growing boy and girl is especially liable to disorders, due to improper eating, irregular habits, worry, lack of rest, or improper food. Eruptions, especially on the face, appear as a result. The sebaceous glands are especially active, and any alteration in the structure of the blood, due to deranged digestive processes and defective elimination by the skin, causes too great an amount of deposit in the fat glands. Their contents become hardened and infected by germs, with consequent irritation and reddening, and the condition known as acne is the result. Once well established it is difficult to cure, but it often rapidly improves under a simple diet, rested nerves, cheerful, kind thoughts, and better digestion and elimination. The food should be thoroughly masticated. Young people are prone to eat too hastily, and thus not thoroughly mix the food with saliva. If careful attention is paid to mastication of the food, water at meals is an aid to digestion. Water should be taken freely between meals, on rising and before retiring, for its diuretic and laxative effect. All candy, and sweets, hot breads, corn bread, pastry, soups with much fat, rich hashes and sauces, fried food, pork, and veal should be eliminated from the diet. A badly blotched face is an embarrassment, and no restriction in the diet should be deemed a hardship as a means to an improved digestion, increased mental vigor, and improved health. A pimple on the face should be treated as antiseptically as a boil. The pus from a pimple which has “come to a head” should not be allowed to infect the surrounding skin. Infection may take place from towels or wash cloths used by one afflicted with acne. Care should be exercised to sterilize the surrounding skin by peroxide of hydrogen or alcohol before a pimple is opened and its contents should be taken up with absorbent cotton. A pimple should never be severely squeezed as the skin will be irritated and other pimples may result. Often the infection from one pimple is spread by the hands or by the wash cloth. Care should be taken to avoid this. _Exercise directed to the facial muscles and to the liver and digestive organs, deep breathing, plenty of oxygen by night and day, wholesome thoughts, plenty of sleep, and simple food, will eliminate or improve most skin difficulties. Care should be taken, by frequent bathing and friction baths, to aid the eliminative work of the skin._ * * * * * [Sidenote: Rheumatism]