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teeth. • Good teeth,'' says Hippocrates, ' conduce to 

 long life;' because he who does not masticate his 

 food properly, and mix it thoroughly with a due por- 

 tion of saliva, will find his digestion fail ; and this 

 failure will gradually open the avenues to death. 



" The practice of smoking is productive of indo- 

 lence, and tends to confirm the lazy in their laziness. 

 Instead of exercising in the open air, as formerly, 

 you sit down before large fires, and smoke tobacco. 

 This hot fumigation opens the pores of the head, 

 throat, neck, and chest ; and you pass out in a reek- 

 ing sweat, into a damp, cold atmosphere ; the patu- 

 lent pores are suddenly closed ; hence arise disorders 

 of the head, throat, and lungs. These causes, co-ope- 

 rating with those already mentioned, produce those 

 hectical symptoms, and consumptive complaints, that 

 have been multiplying among you, to an alarming de- 

 gree ; for this nasty custom includes the destructive 

 effects of indolence, and the pernicious effects of the 

 too frequent use of vinous and ardent spirits ; agents 

 destructive to full grown men; but which act with re- 

 doubled force on the more susceptible frames of young 

 Gentlemen, in the spring of life. 



" Some have said, and the observation carries with 

 it a handsome compliment, " that smoking cannot be 

 an evil custom, seeing most of the clergy follow it." 

 I am mortified that such authority can be adduced to 

 oppose our advice. I will, nevertheless, venture to 

 warn you, who expect to be clothed with the sacred 

 function, against this inconvenient practice, until you 



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