98 tobacco: its use and abuse. 



terrible one, so enslaving is the habit. After a short 

 time, however, he succeeded in conquering the appetite. 

 Many of the symptoms have entirely disappeared, and 

 he is now considerably improved. Is not this case, in 

 the experience of most medical men, the type of thou- 

 sands more ? 

 V " It is a certain fact, that devoted smokers are liable 

 to bq,th constitutional and local disorders of very serious 

 characters.'. Among the former, we notice giddiness, 

 sickness, vomiting, dyspepsia, diarrhoea, angina pectoris, 

 diseases of the liver, pancreas, and heart, nervousness, 

 amaurosis, paralysis, apoplexy, atrophy, deafness, and 

 mania. Amongst the latter, ulceration of the lips (not 

 unfrequently of a syphilitic character, from the morbid 

 matter introduced into the healthy subject, by smoking 

 cigars or pipes which have been used by diseased per- 

 sons), ulceration of gums, cheeks, mucous membrane of 

 the mouth, tonsils, throat, etc. 



" Most of these results I have selected from authors 

 of some locus standi — amongst whom I may mention 

 Prs. Prout, Bright, Laycock, Radcliflfe and Ranking, 

 Pereira, Orfila, Trousseau, Johnstone, Sir B. Brodie, 

 and Professor Lizars. Dr. Taylor, in his valuable work 

 on Poisons, says : ' That a poisonous substance like to- 

 bacco, whether in powder, juice, or vapor, cannot be 

 brought in contact with an absorbing surface like mucous 

 membrane, without in many cases producing disorder of 

 the system, which the consumer is probably quite ready 

 to attribute to any other cause than that which would 

 render it necessary for him to deprive himself of what 



