TOBACCO AND ITS EFFECTS. II3 



among the evils likely to overtake the student of tobacco- 

 using habits." 



" An unsound mind is ever the outcome of an unsound 

 body, caused by a violation of law committed through 

 ignorance, which was not accepted, however, as a reason 

 for exemption from the penalty. What seems needful 

 for the medical profession to teach at the present time 

 is how best to maintain the mental faculties in a state of 

 health. The insidious effects of the tobacco-habit should 

 be pointed out and kept in mind if we would look to the 

 welfare of the professional man and student, and to the wel- 

 fare of society at large. The youth of our land should be 

 taught that the use of tobacco arrests the growth and 

 development of the body, producing low, dwarfish stature, 

 paUid and sallow hue of the surface, insufficient and 

 Unhealthy supply of blood, and diminution of both bodily 

 and mental power. Children should under no circum- 

 stances be allowed to use tobacco in any form." 



Here I close my extracts from the abundant testimony 

 given by our numerous correspondents. The following 

 conclusions appear to be established as the judgment of 

 the representative, thinking portion of the medical men of 

 Wisconsin, a class including by far the larger part of the 

 profession : 



I St. That smoking, even in what is usually considered 

 moderation, is, to say the least, injurious indirectly, most 

 especially to the young ; inasmuch as it is notorious that 

 the habits of drinking and smoking are very intimately 

 associated, and that the practice of the latter may easily 

 lead to the former — that the use of tobacco may become 

 an inducement to the excessive use of intoxicating liquors, 

 with all its accompanying evil results. 



