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in the ' Dictlonnaire des Sciences Medicales/ 

 quoted by Mr. Lizars in his pamphlet against 

 tobacco. On the other hand, Parent-Duchatelet 

 was induced by a rigorous inquiry to deny those 

 effects. According to the latter, the workmen 

 are acclimatised after a time, do not contract any 

 particular diseases, and live to a good age ; the 

 emanations of the tobacco do not inconvenience 

 them excepting at the time when the masses of 

 tobacco are broken down. The reports of the 

 physicians attached to the state-manufactories 

 seem to confirm this opinion. The official 

 document for the year 1842 declares — 1st, 

 that the workmen have suffered from no par- 

 ticular disease which can be attributed to 

 tobacco itself, but it might have aggravated in 

 the city of Paris bronchitis and cephalalgia, which 

 prevailed during the heats of summer ; 2nd, that 

 tobacco might have acted as a preservative 

 against certain diseases — typhus fever at Lyon, 

 dysentery at Morlaix, sweating-sickness at Ton- 

 neins; 3rd, that the employment in tobacco- 

 manufactures might perhaps be beneficial to per- 

 sons threatened" with pulmonary consumption, 



