24 TOBACCO. 



quickens the respiration, and excites the muscular 

 system ; but its ultimate effect is general exhaus- 

 tion. As administered in even the minutest doses, 

 the results are alarming, and in a larger quantity 

 will occasion a man's death in from two to five 

 minutes." 



W. A. Axon asserts in the "Popular Science 

 Monthly " that " the nicotine in one cigar, if ex- 

 tracted and administered in a pure state, would 

 suffice to kill two men." 



The Indians used to poison their arrows by dip- 

 ping them into nicotine, convulsions and often 

 death being the results of these arrow wounds. 



In a paper upon Tobacco, read before a Sanitary 

 Convention in Michigan in 1883, Lemuel Clute, 

 Esq., a lawyer, quotes freely from a work on 

 poisons, by Dr. Taylor, in which many diseases 

 are attributed to the use of the weed. He says : 

 K I have cited thus fully from Taylor on Poisons, 

 because he is a recognized authority in courts, and 

 no one can charge him with being a temperance 

 fanatic. The principles he has gathered and dis- 

 cussed in his book are constantly referred to, and 

 are largely the guide of our judges in passing upon 

 the questions of the liberty, life, and death of our 

 citizens." 



Brodie, Queen Victoria's physician, made sev- 

 eral experiments with nicotine, applying it to the 

 tongues of a mouse, a squirrel, and a dog, death 

 being produced in every instance. A frog placed 

 in a receiver containing a drop of nicotine in a 



