100 tobacco: its use and abuse. 



occasional pipe of tobacco is soon merged into a life, 

 •where no moment is tolerable in wbich the narcotic 

 yapor is withbeld. His morning smoke is commenced 

 ■while in his bed -, his day is passed in a cloud ; and the 

 pipe accompanies him when retiring to rest, to be laid 

 aside when overpowering sleep prevents its further use. 

 The first visible effects of such a life are a disregard for 

 cleanliness and personal appearance. The features be- 

 come bloated, and the lips lose their healthy hue. The 

 cheerful and active movement has given place to a heavy 

 listlessness. The character of the man has undergone 

 a change. When roused, he attends to business, but 

 rapidly returns to a state of abstraction, ^speptic 

 symptoms annoy him, and soon the heart becomes irri- 

 table, and the pulse is irregular. Hypochondriasis in 

 its worse forms is presented, accompanied at times with 

 a suicidal tendency; and I have known individuals in 

 this condition rush to the town, dreading the conse- 

 quences of a longer continuance in their life of solitude. 

 The brain and ganglionic system become involved, and 

 I have seen softening, accompanied by paralysis. Amau- 

 rosis is not an unfrequent indicator of the existing 

 nervous prostration. When under treatment, whether 

 from disease or accident, the inveterate tobacco-smoker 

 quickly presents evidence of the constitutional opera- 

 tions of the narcotic. Typhoid symptoms show them- 

 selves at a very early stage, and smoking delirium is 

 present, which require to be combated by active tonic 

 remedies. 



"No alcoholic beverage reaches the distant station. 

 Tea and tobacco are the luxuries of bush Hfe; hence a 



