92 tobacco: its use and abuse. 



his personal staff to do so, so strong was his opinion of 

 its injurious tendency to the soldier's character. 



" I may be mistaken, but I believe that all our great- 

 est men — I mean intellectually — statesmen, lawyers, 

 warriors, physicians, and surgeons, have either not been 

 smokers, or if smokers, that they have died prematurely. 



" My friend, Mr. Whitfield, the resident medical officer 

 at St. Thomas's Hospital, speaks most strongly of the 

 injury he has t^itnessed from habitual smoking, his ex- 

 perience extending over above forty years, in a hospital 

 containing near 500 beds, and relieving some thousands 

 of out-patients every year. He has seen three cases of 

 delirium tremens induced by tobacco smoke alone. In 

 none of these cases had the patients indulged in drinking 

 intoxicating liquors, so that there was no doubt of the 

 single cause of the disease." 



109. The following extract is from a paper on the 

 " Effects of Tobacco on Europeans in India,'" by James 

 Ranald Martin, Esq., in the Lancet of 28th February, 

 1857: — 



" My friend, Mr. Solly, having referred to what I 

 have stated in the work on ' The Influence of Tropical 

 Climates on European Constitutions,' respecting the 

 effects of the abuse of tobacco, and believing this sub- 

 ject to be one seriously affecting the public health, I 

 beg leave to state, more particularly and more in detail, 

 some of the results of my observation on this question. 



" It is matter of constant observation amongst army 

 Burgeons, ever since the peace of 1815, that the habit 

 of cigar-smoking, introduced into this country from 

 Port igal, Spain, and France, by the officers of the British 



