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tobacco. In such a study there is the eternal Where, When and Why. Ifa 
man says he feels better through the use of tobacco, then the question arises, 
Why do you feel bad? Why do vou feel bad in the winter time, during the 
closed door season, and feel comparatively well in the summer? Why do 
you feel well when you leave the city and go on a vacation to the country or 
spend a winter in the South, where you do not care for sedatives, neither 
tobacco nor alcohol and ean readily do without them? 
Where a man smokes and drinks, and one might say eats, is an important 
question. One realizes it after keeping individuals under observation for a 
long series of years, particularly men and women who are willing to keep 
a daily record. 
As long as tobacco is used sparingly and produces no evil results, neither 
in the user nor in those about him, there is no occasion to speak of a Tobacco 
Problem; the same is true of aleohol. Men who drink sparingly and ‘‘ean 
leave it alone” do not create an alcohol problem. But the man who uses 
tobacco or alcohol sparingly may still be setting a bad example to those 
who can not use them, that is, in moderation and without injury to themselves 
and others. 
I shall now briefly comment on some of my papers presented before this 
Academy. This is not a medical paper; remarks will be along the line of 
Coniosis. 
MOSQUITOES AND MALARIA. 1900. The chief reason for writing 
that paper was to clear the field of work of an affection frequently confounded 
with malaria, an affection very common in our State, under various names, 
such as False Malaria, Atypical Malaria, Latent Malaria, a Touch of Ma- 
laria, Mal-aria, and others, including ‘‘bilious attacks’? and ‘‘auto-intoxiea- 
tion”. 
This paper could be re-written, by one who has access to all the old litera- 
ture, under the title, Indiana: A Redemption from Malaria. It would be 
appropriate for the Centennial next year. As a companion volume the man 
with ample leisure could write a volume on False Malaria, that is, dust in- 
fection. 
Real malaria, that is malarial fever, is transmitted through the bite of 
the anopheles mosquito; false malaria, or Coniosis, is transmitted through 
infected dust. The proper season for malaria is late summer and autumn; 
that of false malaria from autumn through the winter to late in spring, 
