26 TOBACCO. 



Africa. Of the latter, the smell is so offensive 

 that every other animal instinctively shuns it. 



At Dartmouth Park, England, an old wooden 

 pipe was given to a three-year-old to blow soap- 

 bubbles with, the pipe being first carefully washed 

 out. The boy w r as taken ill, and died in three 

 days, his death, according to medical evidence, 

 being caused by the nicotine which he had sucked 

 in while blowing bubbles. 



The daughter of a tobacco merchant, from sim- 

 ply sleeping in a chamber where a large quantity 

 of the weed had been rasped, died soon after in 

 frightful convulsions. 



A child picked up a quid that had been thrown 

 on the floor, and, taking it for a raisin, put it 

 into her mouth, dying of the poison the same day. 



Bocarme, of Belgium, was murdered in two 

 minutes and a half by a little nicotine. A very 

 moderate quantity introduced into the system, or 

 even applying the moistened leaves over the 

 stomach, has suddenly extinguished life. Indeed, 

 so thoroughly does tobacco poison the blood that, 

 according to the testimony of a physician to a dis- 

 pensary in St. Giles, " leeches are instantly killed 

 by the blood of smokers ; so suddenly that they 

 drop off dead immediately when they are applied." 



In this view, w r e cannot wonder that it is pro- 

 nounced perilous for a delicate person to sleep in 

 the chamber with a habitual smoker. 



Medical journals report the poisoning of babes 

 from sharing the bed of a tobacco father, and even 



