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citing cause. The ulceration of the lips, especially the 

 lower, so closely resembles syphilis, that it requires grea-. 

 care and examination to distinguish it. If there be no 

 carcinomatous condition of the ulcerated surface of the 

 lips, mouth, or throat, rinsing the mouth with a solution 

 of honey (a teaspoonful in a tumbler of warm water) 

 three or four times a day, prescribing an alterative pow- 

 der of the bicarbonate of soda 9ji, rhubarb g7, columba 

 g", twice a day ; , a blue pill once a week ; light diet, as 

 the farinaceous, with occasionally fowl or veal ; confine- 

 ment to a large, well- ventilated room; and the rigid 

 abstinence of the pernicious weed, will generally soon 

 eflfect a cure. In some, it may be necessary to touch 

 the ulcerated surface with nitric acid every fourth or 

 fifth day. 



15. Devoted smokers as pertinaciously insist, that they 

 cannot give up such a luxury, as the drunkard affirms 

 that he cannot relinquish his stimulus. But I have 

 known instances in both classes of individuals manfully 

 giving them up.' There is an officer in Her Majest/s 

 service who had upwards of ten severe attacks of deli- 

 rium tremens, and is now a teetotaller; and he has been 

 so for upwards of fifteen years. 



16. The following case, from the Half -Yearly Ah^ 

 stract of the 3Iedical Sciences, for January onwards to 

 July, 1854, page 70, satisfactorily shows that tobacco 

 can be given up. It is likewise a terrible illustration 

 of its baneful efi"ects on the constitution. Drs. Rankin 

 and RadclifFe, the editors, head it, '^ A case of Angina 

 Pectoris resulting from the Use of Tobacco,^' and thus 

 introduce it : " The following case possesses a very high 



