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chest constricted, breathing painful, limbs cor. 

 tracted, pupils insensible, one contracted, the other 

 dilated. These symptoms lasted four days." 



Tyrrell : " The tobacco habit is one of those 

 pleasant vices which the just gods make instru- 

 ments to scourge us, destroying the very principle 

 of manhood." 



Abernethy : " Smoking stupefies all the senses 

 and all the faculties, by slow but enduring intoxi- 

 cation, into dull obliviousness." 



Prof. Miller, of Edinburgh : " As medical men 

 we know that smoking injures the whole organism, 

 and puts a man's stomach and whole frame out of 

 order. The effects of narcotics, mental and bodily, 

 I can fairly testify, are nothing but evil ; and I 

 stand in a position of giving an experienced as 

 well as an impartial observation." 



"In our country," says one, "it is no uncommon 

 circumstance to hear of inquests on the bodies of 

 smokers, especially youths, the ordinary verdict 

 being "Died from extreme tobacco-smoking." 

 In a single death-certificate of a New York 

 physician, we read: "Four died of poisoning 

 from tobacco." 



"I have no hesitation in averring," w T rites one 

 of the most able and experienced temperance ad- 

 vocates, "that, gigantic as are the evils arising 

 from the use of strong drink, those of using 

 tobacco exceed them." 



Dr. Twitchell, of Keene, N. H., expresses sub- 

 stantially the same opinion. 



