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it as swelling the bills of mortality. It is, never- 

 theless, true that multitudes are carried to the 

 grave every year by tobacco alone." 



Dr. Clay : " I have been called to children 

 writhing in horrid convulsions from having the de- 

 coction of tobacco applied for the scald head, and 

 I have always experienced great difficulty in re- 

 storing them ; three instances, in my own recollec- 

 tion, were attended with fatal results." 



Dr. Newell, a Boston practitioner : " Small doses 

 of the oil of tobacco administered to a dog for a 

 few weeks cause marasmus and a withering of the 

 spinal cord. The dog soon drags the hind legs, 

 sheds his hair, sloughs off the eyelids, becomes 

 blind, and dies. Thus it is seen that nicotine is 

 one of the most deadly poisons, its fatal results 

 being produced in less time than any other poison 

 except prussic acid." 



In confirmation of this, it is asserted by M. Or- 

 fila, president of the Paris Medical Academy, that 

 " Tobacco is the most subtile poison known to the 

 chemist, except the deadly prussic acid." 



A prominent tobacco manufacturer declares that 

 nothing ever goes into tobacco so deleterious to 

 the constitution as tobacco itself. 



That its legitimate results are not invariably man- 

 ifested is owing to the marvellous power in the 

 human system to tolerate poison taken gradually. 

 It is with tobacco as with laudanum, opium, ar- 

 senic, whiskey, and other liquors, to the use of 

 which a man may, by degrees, habituate himself, 



