84 tobacco: its use and abuse. 



ble. It follows as often from too much snuffing as too 

 muoli smoking. The treatment consists in '^throwing 

 away tobacco for eter/' inserting setons in the lumbar 

 region, tonics, cold bathing, and good diet. 



29. Mania is a fearful result of the excessive use of 

 tobacco — two cases of which I have witnessed since the 

 publication of this treatise. I have also to mention, 

 that a gentleman called on me, and thanked me for the 

 publication of my Observations on Tobacco, and related 

 to me, with deep emotion, what had occurred in his own 

 family from smoking tobacco. Two amiable younger 

 brothers had gone deranged, and committed suicide. 

 There is no hereditary predisposition to mania in the 

 family. At a meeting of the Medical and Chirurgical 

 Society of London, on May 2d, 1854, a paper was read, 

 entitled, "Additional Remarks on the Statistics and 

 Morbid Anatomy of Mental Diseases," by Dr. Webster, 

 wherein he cites, among the causes, the great use of 

 tobacco, which opinion he supported by reference to the 

 statistics of insanity in Germany. 



30. Loss of memory takes place in an extraordinary 

 degree in the smoker, much more so than in the drunk- 

 ard, evidently from tobacco acting more on the brain 

 than alcohol. The cure consists in " throwing away to- 

 hacco for ever." 



31. Amaurosis is a ve^ common result of smoking 

 tobacco to excess; but I have never seen it produced by 

 snuffing or chewing. It occurs with or without conges- 

 tion of the brain. It is commonly confined to one eye. 

 It is generally curable, but not always, by ^^ throwing 

 away tobacco for ever'* — by inserting a seton in the 



