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substance of it, for it is a stinking, loathsome tiling, and 

 so is hell. Were I to invite the devil to dinner, he should 

 have three dishes, — 1st, a pig ; 2iidly, a pole of ling and 

 mustard ; 3rdly, a pipe of tobacco for digesture." * 



Compared with the royal author's * Counter- 

 blaste,' this is tender mercy, observes an anony- 

 mous medical writer; but I may add, "all 

 joking apart," that I have been little understood 

 in a previous part of this Treatise if my opinion 

 concerning the moral action of tobacco be not 

 apparent : — • 



'' That sedate, sober, and capable men smoke tobacco 

 almost incessantly," observes the same anonymous physi- 

 cian, " must be known to many persons, neither do their 

 mental or physical powers suffer by it. The drunkard 

 smokes, but his pipe is a mere appendage to his pot. 

 Observation leads to a conclusion that there are more 

 sober than drunken smokers." f 



And some men, whether drunkards or not, 

 reckless or 'sedate, cannot smoke at all, try they 

 never so wisely. 



* Apophthegms, &c., 12mo, 1671. 



t See a paper signed " Medicus " in vol. xxiv. of ' The 

 London Medical and Physical Journal,' p. 445. The medical 

 reader will find this article recommended by Dr. Paris 

 (Pharmacologia, p. 81). The other work, ' Essay on Tobacco,' 

 by H. W, Cltdand, M.D., I was unable to procure, even at 

 the library of the British Museum^ 



