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ADVANCED PHYSIOLOGY 



A careful study of the records made by college students shows 

 that those who habitually use tobacco are, on the average, 

 mentally inferior to those who do not have that habit. The 

 brightest and most independent are most likely to avoid it. 

 After one reaches maturity, i. e. after twenty-five years or so, 

 the effect of tobacco smoking is not so noticeable, but for all 

 persons of student age the habit is very unwise, and some- 

 times disastrous. Moreover, employers of boys find the cigar- 

 ette smoker decidedly inferior to his cleaner companions, and 

 this inferiority, generally speaking, may be said to persist in 

 later life. The smoker is often incapacitated for fine work. 



MEDICINES 



In spite of all one's attempts to keep himself in proper 

 health, he does not always succeed, and almost everyone is 

 occasionally ill. There is a very general feeling that if one 

 is ill the necessary thing is to take a dose of medicine. People 

 have a notion that medicine in some mysterious way will cure 

 disease no matter what its cause, and sometimes no matter 

 what the medicine. Much evil results from this ignorant 

 idea. For ordinary ills there is always a cause, and the proper 

 course is to remove the cause rather than to take medicine. If, 

 for example, one suffers from indigestion, he should endeavor 

 to change his food habits or his food, or to take more exercise 

 rather than to continue in the old way and rely upon medicine 

 to cure. Indeed, most of the little ills in life can be readily 

 mastered by a change of habit, without medicine. Medicine 

 has its uses, beyond doubt, but it is very unwise and unsafe 

 for the untrained person to administer it. 



Especially is it a mistake to buy and use the numerous 

 so-called "patent medicines/' extensively advertised and 

 claiming to cure a long list of troubles. This does not mean 

 that none of them has any value, but that many contain 

 powerful drugs, alcohol or opium, which cannot be safely 

 used by anyone and certainly not without the advice of a 



