124 tobacco: its use and abuse. 



resumes lis evil habit, the attack comes on as severe as 

 ever." 



Will he be able to do so always ? Will not organic 

 disease ultimately follow such attacks of functional dis- 

 order ? 



135. I am informed by a gentleman, whose name I 

 am not at liberty to mention, that a popular writer of 

 the present day married a lady, and that immediately 

 after his marriage he proposed serrate beds, which was 

 agreed to. But on the young bride telling her situation 

 to her mother, the latter investigated the condition of 

 the two partners, and learned that the husband was im- 

 potent; he, in short, had long been an inveterate smoker. 

 A separation and divorce were immediately obtained, 

 and the lady was married to Mr. J. M. After the ordi- 

 nary time she became a mother. 



136. Extracts from Dr. Budgett's instructive paper, 

 on " The Tobacco Question, Morally, Socially, and Phy- 

 sically Considered :" 1857. Dr. Budgett remarks : '^ Two 

 hundred and sixty years ago, tobacco smoking was de- 

 scribed as ^a branch of the sin of drunkenness;' but 

 during the last ten or fifteen years, the consumption of 

 the weed has so increased, especially amongst young 

 people, that we cannot even yet comprehend its influ- 

 ence or result. 



" Still, the habits and manners of a country stamp its 

 identity; and if a New Zealander, or any manly repre- 

 sentative of any of our many conquered countries, which 

 we call colonies, could place himself in London, Man- 

 chester, or any of our large cities, and ask to be shown 

 th* youth of our present time, the fathers of the next 



