f' 
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av/s of this country, ft 
proliiblted by tlie 1 
forms no mconfiderable branch of com 
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maniifadure of it 
I'he different forts of Tobacco and Snuffs prepared from 
1 are 
hich 
ittribiited to the difference of the climate 
d the peculiar m.ode of manac;inp; and n 
turm 
plant, rather than to any elfential d 
e in its qualities ; . 
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fnall therefore proceed to the confideration of the eflefts of Toba 
body, which from 
the whole of wh 
y wi 
b 
emp 
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c thought 
c 
p 
ibing 
a^ 
tpjy -^ 
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dvanced ^"^ 
u 
this fubje^t by D 
Cullen.™—^^ Tobacco is a well-knowR dru!?. oi a narcotic Quality, which 
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d 
ns, even m i 
fmall quantity, when firft applied 
them. I have 'known a fmall quantity of it, fnuffed up th 
produce giddinefs, ftupor, and vomiting; and when applied 
ways, m 
arger cjuantity. 
ny inftances of 
violent 
even of its proving a mortal poifo 
I 
inftances it op 
in the 
mariner of otl 
narcotics ; 
all thefe 
lit alon!^: 
with its narcotic qualities it p 
IT. 
1 
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pern a J 
pe£!; to the w^hole fy 
ftomach and iiiteft 
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ilfo a ftroiigly ftimulant poweiv 
jiem, but efpecially with refpecb 
fo as readily, even in no great dofes, 
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prove erne 
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By this combination of qu 
•o 
iFecls of tobacco may 
(c 
DC explained ; but I ihall begin with coniidering its etieds as they 
n article of living.' 
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appear m the uie of i 
t a 
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pradices which^ as having been for two hundred years paft commoii 
to 
Europe^ need not be 
bed 
ere. 
Like other narcotics 
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even 
fr 
ay b 
e 
duced by degrees ; fo that its peculi 
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arge qu 
emnloved 
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hardly at all appear 
I have piven of its 
but 
b 
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lid the ac 
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it. 
an 
d 
of 
y 
fpeci to perfons unaccuftomed 
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now Its po 
m 
hof 
e m 
1 ac 
cuftomed to it : for even in thefe, the power of habit h 
? 
that in perfons going but a little beyond the dofe to v/hich they 
" have been a 
fto 
J 
y violent effed 
s a 
ii 
fometim.es produced 
a, 
On this fubie£l it is to b 
emarked, that the pov/er of habit 
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