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ray home after a hard day's work only to find that a still harder 

 night awaited me in the shape of a tedious labor case. A dose of 

 coca, however, removed the fatigue and left me as fresh as when 

 starting out in the morning after a sound night's sleep." 



Dr. Waugh proceeds to give instances of the alcohol habit, 

 cured by the use of the Erythroxylon Coca. To overcome the ob- 

 stacle that men did not like to be seen taking medicine, he has put 

 up the coca in masticatory plugs like tobacco, and called coca-bola. 

 This has also had the additional effect of curing the tobacco 

 chewing habit. 



TOBACCO. 



Tobacco a Poison No one will question the fact that 

 tobacco is a poison, who has observed the deadly sickness it usually 

 produces when chewed or smoked by those not habituated to its use. 

 There are but few substances in nature that are capable of destroying 

 life so suddenly as tobacco. From one to two drops of the oil have 

 frequently been administered to dogs and cats, and invariably in a 

 few minutes life became extinct. Dr. Franklin applied the oily 

 material which floats on the surface of water when a current of 

 tobacco smoke is passed into it, to the tongue of a cat, and found 

 it to destroy life in a few minutes. 



Tobacco a Cause of Disease Tobacco is a frequent 

 cause of disease of the digestive organs, lungs, nervous system, head, 

 eyes and brain. It causes heartburn, nausea and frequent belchings; 

 pains and diseases of the liver; pains in the bowels, with disposition 

 to diarrhea or costiveness. It causes, too, difficulty of breathing, 

 oppression of the chest, pains in the chest, with inability to take in 

 a long breath, and violent palpitation of the heart, as well as pain 

 and stiffness of the back. Tobacco also produces a tendency to 

 paralysis, causes drowsiness, unnatural sleep, nightmare, trouble- 

 some, anxious and frightful dreams, and a great number arid variety 

 of affections which we have not space to mention. In fact we have 

 noticed but a small proportion of the diseases which are asserted by 

 some of our best medical writers to spring from the use of tobacco. 

 Of course it affects different persons in different ways, searching 

 6ut and seizing upon those parts of the body which are least able to 

 resist its destructive force. 



Yet there is seldom any one who habitually uses tobacco but 

 will find himself troubled, more or less-, by the symptoms of the 

 above named diseases as soon as he stoj^ its use; but while using it 

 freely it will palliate or allay, as do aft poisons, the symptoms its 

 use has caused. Not infrequently on rising in the morning, after 

 having abstained from its use during the night, he will get a slight 

 glimpse of his waning vital energies; but his view will soon again 

 be obscured when he partakes of the alluring leaf. 



