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vain to bring it back to its original character, M. 

 Decroix, in 1877, founded the present society. In 

 1883, the first association was dissolved, and the 

 commission of liquidation passed over to the new 

 society three hundred and sixty francs to be 

 awarded in prizes, while M. Blatin left a legacy 

 to found an annual prize of fifty francs, bearing 

 his name. 



It was with this society that the International 

 Congress on the subject of tobacco was held during 

 the great Paris Exposition of 1889. 



The members have shown much energy in pub- 

 lishing and distributing valuable anti-tobacco liter- 

 ature. M. Decroix, the founder and president, has 

 written a number of excellent pamphlets, among 

 which is one of special importance on ff The use of 

 Tobacco in the Army." In this connection I can- 

 not forbear naming a French work of over five 

 hundred pages, by Dr. H. A. Depierris, entitled 

 " Physiologie Sociale Les Tabac." The treatment 

 of the subject is candid and exhaustive, and the 

 book is interesting as well as instructive from the 

 beginning to the end. 



THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE 

 ASSOCIATION. 



This society was formed in 1879, by Dr. J. H. 

 Kellogg, of the Medical and Surgical Sanitarium, 

 Battle Creek, Michigan. It has an anti-tobacco 

 pledge, to which there have been nearly twenty 



