TOBACCO AND ITS EFFECTS. 



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T N this age it becomes more and more the aim of the 

 ^ sanitarian to search out the avoidable causes of sick- 

 ness, and to admonish the people to order their lives in 

 accordance with Nature's laws, and thus avoid many evils 

 that otherwise they must endure. The medical profession 

 has had much to do in relieving the suffering in the world 

 that has been due to accident or indiscretion ; but it has 

 not hitherto taken that interest in discovering and endeav- 

 oring to remove the causes of ill-health which will be the 

 foundation of a large part of the medical science of the 

 immediate future. 



It is not difficult to see that there are at present many 

 vast and wholly unexplored fields in the province of pre- 

 ventive medicine. PubHc hygiene is yet in its infancy. 

 Certain forces are at work producing illness, and a huge 

 amount of drugs is used to counteract the evil tendencies 

 thus engendered ; while no sufficient attention is given to 

 the causes that have occasioned the sickness, the removal 

 of which would restore health, with little or no medicine. 

 We study fully the symptoms and effects of disease, but we 

 have not as yet investigated its sources with anything like 



