TOBACCO AND ITS EFFECTS. IO9 



increase of dyspepsia, nervous debility, and all the long 

 train of symptoms of nervous trouble so common among 

 our business and professional men, and those who lead 

 sedentary lives." 



" I do not think that there is an articl-e in use in this 

 country whose legitimate effect upon the nervous system 

 tends to induce deterioration more decidedly than does 

 the effect of tobacco." 



" As our studies of the causes of disease acquire the 

 definiteness of science, and convictions of the laws and 

 requirements of bodily health are forcing themselves upon 

 us, the evils to the physical life of society, that result from 

 whiskey and tobacco, become more and more apparent. 

 I have little hesitation in attributing a very large propor- 

 tion of some of the most painful maladies that come 

 under my notice to the ordinary' and daily use of tobacco 

 in the quantity usually deemed moderate." 



" While there are differences in the medical estimate of 

 tobacco, and differences, to some extent, in opinions as to 

 the toleration of its use which can be established or 

 endured by individuals, there is yet great uniformity of 

 the opinion as to unadvisabihty of its use under any 

 pretext whatever. No person or community need make 

 the effort to use tobacco extensively in any form, without 

 the expectation and assurance that the result will be 

 continued injury to the individual, and enfeeblement to the 

 race. I do not mean to say by this that one cigar or one 

 pipe of tobacco will leave the partaker pennanently 

 impaired, any more than I would assert that the loss of 

 one night's sleep is a permanent injury to a person in fair 

 average health ; but it should be understood that the 

 general Une of direction is toward the impairment of 



