?0 tobacco: its use and abuse. 



smokiog tobacco, lie suffers often the most inconceivably 

 miserable sickness and vomiting — almost as bad as sea- 

 sickness. It generally produces these effects so rapidly, 

 that their production must entirely depend upon nervous 

 influence, as giddiness is almost immediately induced. 

 The antidote or cure for this miserable condition is 

 drinking strong coffee, or brandy and water, and retiring 

 to bed or sofa. If he perseveres, he has just to suffer 

 onwards, until his nervous system becomes habituated to 

 the noxious weed, and too often to the bottle at the same 

 time. It is truly melancholy to witness the great num- 

 ber of the young who smoke now-a-days; and it is pain- 

 ful to contemplate how many premising youths must be 

 stunted in their growth, and enfeebled in their minds, 

 before they arrive at manhood. 



20. "Let the young adept," says Boussiron, in his 

 interesting Treatise on Tobacco, " whom you wish to 

 form by your lessons, smoke the leaves of tobacco, thorn- 

 apple, or deadly night-shade, and you may be certain to 

 see take place the effects nearly identical in violence — 

 giddiness, intoxication, disturbed vision, nausea, vomit- 

 ing, and frequently diarrhoea." 



21. Dyspepsia from the use of tobacco is accompanied 

 with the same symptoms as when the disease is produced 

 by drinking or gluttony, and want of exercise in the 

 open air. The only cure is, by " throioing away tobacco 

 for ever" — and this will be accelerated by a blue pill 

 once a week, the alterative powder morning and evening, 

 prescribed under ulceration of the mouth, the infusion 

 of quassia, or quassia and gentian combined, iHild nutri- 

 tious diet, as coffee or tea, with lightly toasted br«ad, 



