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tage in smoking, in spite of this Wcirning of 

 nature ; for he says, — 



" With regard to myself and tobacco, although I have a 

 stomach that will digest anything in the shape of food, yet 

 if I smoke three cigars in a day, or smoke three or four 

 successive days, it invariably jiroduces the most extreme 

 gastrodynia and cardialgia, — so as to make me quite mi- 

 serable ; and therefore 1 am compelled to he temperate in 

 that respect.^'' * 



He also says, — 



" Dr. Cullen mentions two cases of dyspepsia, from 

 patients taking snufi" before dinner : in one the disorder of 

 the stomach was gastrodynia,— aching pain of the sto- 

 mach ; in the other, a complete loss of appetite. Now, 

 both these individuals, on being particular not to take 

 snuff before dinner — taking as much as they chose when the 

 stomach had something in it — recovered from their dys- 

 pepsia." t 



Smoking on an empty stomach will not do for 

 every one, nor immediately after meals. 



My entire experience is in favour of the 

 mildest havannah cigar. 



But I must not be supposed to be adverse to 

 the pipe. Tciste is multiform. Horace, in his 

 first Ode, has certainly not exhausted its va- 



* Practice of Medicine, p. 1094. f Ibid. 



