110 tobacco: its use and abuse. 



sess a power of stupefying all the senses and all tha 

 faculties, by slow but enduring intoxication, into dull 

 obliviousness. 



"I recollect reading the address of a professor, in 

 some American University, to his pupils, on the bad 

 effects of tobacco. This address, sensible and spirited, 

 seemed to come from the professor's very heart. He 

 deprecated, in the most forcible manner, the practice 

 of smoking, which had been recently taken up, and 

 said, * That prior to the period when pipes were to be 

 seen in the mouth of every student, the youth of the 

 University were as different in their looks from the indi- 

 viduals with whom he was then surrounded, as health 

 from disease.' " • 



He gives the following translation of an epigram, by 

 Petrus Scriverinus, on a tobacco-pipe : 



" Old men and young, beware ! beware ! 

 A pipe of tobacco is Satan's snare ; 

 Not surer the net for birds is spread, 

 By the pipe's sweet note to capture led. 

 Than the whifiFs which the lovers of smoking take, 

 Are sure to lead to the Stygian lake." 



127. Dr. Taylor, who, as an accurate analyst, and an 

 enlightened medical jurist, has deservedly earned a name 

 of the highest authority in all medico-legal questions, in 

 his work on Poisons, says : 



"A poisonous substance like tobacco, whether in 

 powder, juice, or vapor, cannot be brought in contact 

 with an absorbing surface, like mucous membrane, with- 

 dut in many cases producing disorder of the system, 

 ■^hich the consumer is probably quite ready to attribute 



