76 TOBACCO : ITS HISTORY. 



PART lY. 



THE INFLUENCE OF TOBACCO ON THE 

 HUMAN SYSTEM. 



I WAS once told by a clergyman that the most 

 disgusting thing he ever saw in all his life was 

 the state of his own teeth, exhibited to him by 

 way of double reflection on a mirror, by his 

 dentist. I have taken a friend to Dr. Kahn's 

 most interesting and instructive anatomical mu- 

 seum, and he had scarcely been in the hall three 

 minutes before he felt " sick," and pronounced 

 the whole collection a most detestable libel on 

 human nature ! And truly enough, for " the 

 greater the truth, the greater the libel." I fear 

 the reader will not peruse with much gusto the 

 following analysisof the gentle weed, as exhibited 

 by the chemists ; the bare recital is enough to 

 " turn the stomach " of any man who has not 

 hardened himself against horrors in the dissecting- 

 room and the wards, of hospitals. Still, by ^vay 

 of encouragement, I may be permitted to assure 



