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human race, affected with this artificial passion, would prevail 

 upon himself to try, but for three months, the experiment 

 which I have made, and am sure it would turn every acre of 

 tobacco land into a wheat-field, and add five years to the 

 average of human life." 



Dr. Woodward, former superintendent of the State Lunatic 

 Asylum at Worcester, says : " Tobacco is a powerful narcotic 

 agent, and its use is very deleterious to the nervous system, 

 producing tremors, vertigo, faintness, palpitation of the heart, 

 and other serious diseases. That tobacco certainly produces 

 insanity, I am not able positively to observe; but that it 

 produces a predisposition to it, I am fully confident." 



Dr. Amos Twitchell, of Keene, says, in a lecture on the 

 habitual use of tobacco, that it produces its most pernicious 

 effects by paralyzing the action of the nerves of involuntary 

 motion, — those whose function it is to carry on the action 

 of the lungs, heart, and stomach. The habitual use of to- 

 bacco is a most fruitful source of disease. Among the 

 diseases caused by tobacco the doctor enumerated palsy, — 

 which he thought was produced by tobacco more frequently 

 than by all other causes, — inveterate nervous headache, pal- 

 pitation of the heart, disease of the liver, indigestion, ulcera- 

 tion of the stomach, piles, and many others. 



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