122 tobacco: its use and abuse. 



ties; not properly palsy, but devious movements, and 

 difficulty in standing steadily or moving directly, so that 

 he could not easily get over a stone — an effort causing 

 him anxiety; and he was obliged often to hold by the 

 wall through giddiness. Sometimes, when the pain 

 went into the left hemisphere of the brain, the patient 

 saw objects double. Various remedies were tried, pre- 

 parations of iron, etc., but without effect. The patient 

 was a smoker; and Professor Siebert discovered that he 

 was uniformly worse after smoking cigars. With much 

 difficulty the doctor got him to abstain from this prac- 

 tice for a short time, ^ a trial ; and the consequence 

 was a relief from the symptoms of which he had so long 

 complained. He got gradually better, and ultimately 

 regained his health. Subsequently, the professor met 

 his patient in the inn called the Three Crowns, in 



B ; when, in the midst of their enjoyment and 



conversation, the latter, with somewhat of a pitiful look, 

 inquired of his doctor if he might once again enjoy the 

 luxury of a cigar. The doctor forbade ; but the advo- 

 cate insisted, and took his own way. After the second 

 cigar, he became pale, speechless, and hollow-eyed, left 

 his seat and went out. The doctor followed him, and 

 heard him confess that he felt come upon him the whole 

 symptoins of his former disease. He was again treated 

 with medicine ; and, having recourse to no more cigars, 

 he was again restored to health — a clear proof, as the 

 professor says, that the tobacco was the cause of his 

 ftilmcnt." 



133. I was consulted lately by the father of a young 

 barrister, who was ruining his prospects by smoking to- 



