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Many authors have given accounts of the 

 bad effeds proceeding from an immoderate 

 ufe of tobacco. Borrhi mentions a perfon, 

 who through excefs of fmoking, had dried 

 his brain to fo great a degree, that after his 

 death there was nothing found in his fkull 

 but a fmall black lump confifting of mere 

 membranes. From the ufe of good tobacco 

 this could not have happened ; for, as I 

 have juft obferved, the 'fumes which only 

 prove noxious from an immoderate continu- 

 ance, could not have been repeated fo often 

 as to produce fuch dreadful effects. 



To the inilrudions already given I fliall 

 add, that I would advife the planter, in his 

 firft trials, not to be too avaricious, but to 

 top his plants before they have gained their 

 utmoft height; leaving only about the mid- 

 dle quantity of leaves direded before, to 

 give it a tolerable degree of flrength. For 

 though this, if exceffive, might be abated 

 during the cure, by an increafe of fweating, 

 or be remedied the next feafon by more 



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