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water-drinking. Again, exercise induces perspiration, 

 and that in turn also increases the water-drinking. 

 Each means helps the others all the time, and in this 

 way the blood is readily purified. But it cannot be 

 done by a "tonic," or '^blood-purifier." Every one 

 of the nostrums advertised under these various names 

 contains from six to fifty per cent of bad whisky or 

 alcohol, and yet the great majority of people depend 

 upon them as purifying agencies, instead of upon the 

 natural ones enumerated. 



SMOKING A CAUSE OF CONSUMPTION 

 AND BRIGHT'S DISEASE 



One of the most celebrated European specialists re- 

 cently called attention to the fact that consumption is 

 becoming exceedingly prevalent among cigar-smokers. 

 The reason for this is evident. The fact that persons 

 of feeble or diseased constitution are frequently em- 

 ployed in the manufacture of cigars, coupled with the 

 enforced confinement in a close and foul atmosphere, 

 renders this class of laborers especially liable to con- 

 sumption. It is not an uncommon thing to see two 

 or three loud consumptives in a single cigar factory. 

 Of course, the mouth and lips are constantly soiled 

 with the expectorated matter; and when the cigar- 

 maker puts on the finishing touch to the cigar by mois- 

 tening it with his lips, he infects it; and the man who 

 smokes the cigar thereby becomes vaccinated with the 

 disease. It may not be a matter to be so greatly re- 

 gretted, that the race of cigar-smokers should be killed 

 otf, although it must be admitted that, through igno- 



