148 TOBACCO : ITS HISTORY. 



alone I have constantly taken the last thing at 

 night; and I recommend to all who may, at 

 any time, fancy that they have smoked too much, 

 camphorated spirits of wine — two or three drops 

 in a table-spoonful of water. Camphor is alleged 

 to be an antidote to tobacco. 



According to Dr. Laycock, some smokers ex- 

 perience in the morning, at waking, heat, redness, 

 tears in the eyes, spasm of the orbicular muscle 

 of the eyelids, with photophobia : if so, it is high 

 time to discontinue a pleasure at the cost of 

 positive pain. 



Good smokers rarely lose much saliva ; but 

 in others the loss may be extensive enough to 

 impair digestion and compromise nutrition ; the 

 swallowing of the bitter principle mixed with the 

 saliva may, in certain cases, irritate the stomach, 

 as I have stated. Percy, who exaggerated the 

 morbid liability of smokers, ascribed to smoking 

 squirrhous induration and cancer of the stomach. 

 In reading all these allec;ations and those in the 

 ' Lancet,' perhaps the reader will ask himself how 

 it happens that in the minute account of the 

 workmen in the French factories — under the 



