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ceptional, the doctor stating that such cases are of 

 frequent occurrence. 



In the Bellevue Hospital there were recently 

 fifty patients suffering from one of the most fearful 

 and incurable of maladies, contracted from cigars 

 manufactured in tenement houses, by diseased 

 persons, the finishing touch being given by the 

 teeth and tongue. Among the physicians who 

 have traced several similar cases to this source 

 may be named Dr. L. Duncan Bulkley, of New 

 York. 



Let the sons of Esculapius who recommend 

 cigars for their tranquillizing influence enlighten 

 their patients with the fact that, at one time, just 

 after thousands of cigars had been turned loose 

 upon the world, their makers were discovered to be 

 pitted with the small-pox. 



We learn from the public journals that in San 

 Francisco a hundred and ninety-five cases of lep- 

 rosy have been traced by the physicians of that 

 city to the smoking of cigarettes manufactured by 

 Chinese lepers. 



Mr. K. L. Carpenter: "It is stated that an im- 

 mense quantity of cheap European tobacco is 

 shipped to Cuba, to be made up and exported as 

 Havana cigars. The Act of Parliament against the 

 adulteration of tobacco informs us of various nox- 

 ious articles used by unscrupulous manufacturers. 

 Some, however, are comparatively innocent, — 

 such as sawdust, peat, and seaweed, — so that the 

 workman's bad tobacco may not be as poisonous as 



