no TOBACCO AND ITS EFFECTS. 



vital force, and hence toward prostration and serious 

 nervous disease." 



" I think the majority of my office-patients are those 

 whose systems have been shattered by the excessive use 

 of tobacco ; the effects of this drug and its entaihiients 

 are not sufficiently taught by the medical profession." 



*• Experience and observation alike show that the use of 

 tobacco is producing a rapid increase in the amount of 

 nervous and pulmonary diseases. Hence comes also a 

 demand for whiskey to counteract the depression caused 

 by tobacco, and from both we have broken-down constitu- 

 tions and premature exhaustion in the offspring of their 

 consumers." 



" I answer your questions generally, by saying that I 

 believe that the use of tobacco tends to promote intem- 

 perance, by causing profuse expectoration, and consequent 

 exhaustion, which calls for stimulating liquors. During 

 thirty years in which I used tobacco I laid the foundation 

 for dyspepsia, diseased throat, catarrh, and general de- 

 rangement of the nervous system, which now, after twenty 

 years' abstinence, still maintain a hold upon my bodily, 

 mental, and moral powers ; and though the effect is far less 

 injurious than it would have been had I not reformed, I 

 must regard the formation of the evil habit as one of the 

 gravest sins of my life." 



" We are told that Nature never forgives sins committed 

 against her by individuals ; that the record of offences 

 against her is never effaced ; that the penalty is always 

 exacted to the uttermost ; and I have never been more 

 firmly convinced of these facts than when attempting to 

 treat the long train of nervous and digestive troubles — 

 traceable, directly or indirectly, to the use of tobacco in 



