RS. ADA S. BALLIN No small inte- AND HER WORK. rest attaches itself to the BY THE BARONESS accompanying DE BERTOUCH. portrait of Mrs. Ada S. Ballin, inasmuch as there is pro- bably no lady-specialist living so well-known as an authority on Health and Beauty as she. For many years past she has not only constantly written in the public press, and advised privately on all subjects connected with personal appearance and hygiene, but has also for the last six years busied herself in removing a great many of the disfigurements that afflict humanity by means of the operation called Electrolysis, which is a certain and radical cure for superfluous hairs, moles, birthmarks, patches of red veins on the face, and similar blemishes. Mrs. Ballin's patients are almost all women and children, but gentlemen are not absolutely excluded from the pretty consulting room at 66, Holland Park Avenue, London, W., and she can tell many an interesting story of tattoo marks, nmevi, etc., which from time to time she has been called upon to exorcise from manly hands and faces. More especially is this the case as regards redness and swelling of the nose, which is frequently disfigured by the appearance of red veins, a trouble which may be due to indigestion or many other causes. For example, one gentleman of twenty-seven, sent to Mrs. Ballin by his mother, had suffered greatly by being suspected of insobriety, whereas he was in reality a teetotaler, and the trouble had arisen from scarlet fever acquired eight years previously. Throughlout these years he had consulted one specialist after another without im- provement, but was cured by Mrs. Ballin in about twelve sittings. The bulk of her work, however, lies undoubtedly among ladies and young children, and comprises the large radius of

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unsightly skin diseases, especially eczema, in which she has effected some remarkable and unlooked-for cures. Nor is this all ! In the important matters of nursery diet, dress, and general hygiene, Mrs. Ballin is our most popular referee, and she takes care to give all English-speaking mothers an excellent and inexpensive opportunity of consulting her on these absorbing topics, through the columns of her own at- tractive magazine Bakl,, which appears monthly, price four- pence. It is nevertheless rather with her needle than her pen that Mrs Ballin has achieved her brilliant success. During the year IS96 she gave I,8oo sittings for Electrolysis and has already given almost as many this year, with the reassuring result that her patients emerge from the ordeal not only cured but nrearred, for, owing to her scientific skill and the patient care and attention bestowed on ea-h individual case. there is no risk of scarring or of any other disagreeable effect attached to the operation. A few weeks ago I had an interesting opportunity of seeing Mrs. Ballin at work, when her patients happened to be a young lady from whose chin and lip she was causing to dis-...