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ff I verily believe that the mental force, power of 

 labor, and endurance of our profession is decreased 

 at least twenty-five per cent by the use of tobacco. 

 Its poisonous and narcotic effects reduce the power 

 of the vital organs and tend to paralyze them, 

 while the useless consumption of time and money 

 takes away twenty-five per cent of the working 

 hours, if it does not consume the same amount of 

 the earnings." 



With very few exceptions, medical and scientific 

 men are in substantial agreement as to the effect 

 of tobacco on the intellect ; indeed, I have yet to 

 hear of the first one that has expressed himself at 

 all on the subject who is not explicit in his decla- 

 ration of its injurious influence on the physical and 

 mental powers of the young. 



Prof. Lizars of Edinburgh enumerates a fearful 

 catalogue of diseases which he proves to be the 

 result of tobacco, adding: f 'It is painful to con- 

 template how many promising youths must be 

 stunted in their growth and enfeebled in their 

 minds before they arrive at manhood." 



What an advance in intellectual and moral power 

 should we behold if our young men could be in- 

 duced to follow the example of Sir Isaac Newton, 

 who refused to smoke " because he would make no 

 necessities for himself; " a sentiment worthy to be 

 engraved over the doors of every college and school- 

 house in the land. Dr. Depierris, a French phy- 

 sician, in his excellent treatise on tobacco, ex- 

 claims, "How sad it is to behold so manv fine in- 



