112 tobacco: its use and abuse. 



increased, and then tenderness of the spine along it» 

 whole length, rigidity of the limbs, costiveness, derange- 

 ment of the catamenia, &c. Seeing the good effect of 

 abandoning the use of tobacco in her brother, she made 

 the same experiment in part herself, and with the same 

 marked relief from many of the symptoms — she ulti- 

 mately recovered a comfortable state of health. She has 

 frequently ventured upon a moderate use of tobacco, but 

 a^er using it a while, she experiences her old feelings, 

 and then quickly abandons it. 



130. Dr. Laycock, Professor of the Practice of Physic 

 in the University of Edinburgh, a physician not less dis- 

 tinguished for great erudition than for his practical ex- 

 perience, and skill, and tact, in the detection and treat- 

 ment of disease, published, in the Medical Gazette for 

 October 2d, 1846, a paper, so corroborative of my views 

 regarding tobacco, as to render an apology for publishing 

 the following extract from it wholly unnecessary. He 

 remarks : — 



" It is only by personal observations made during the 

 last two or three years, that I have become fully aware 

 of the great changes induced in the system by the abuse 

 of tobacco, and of the varied and obscure form of dis- 

 ease to which especially excessive smoking gives origin ; 

 and I now propose to state some of the results at which 

 I have arrived. 



" The consequences of smoking tobacco are manifested 

 in the buccal and pharyngeal mucous membrane and 

 their diverticula; qp the stomach, the lungs, and the 

 heart, and on the brain and nervous system. With 

 regard to these consequences, it may be generally statec? 



