60 TOBACCO. 



If additional testimony were desirable, a long 

 and goodly array of medical names, both in our 

 own country and in Europe, might be cited. All 

 the medical schools as such, allopathic, hydro- 

 pathic, homoeopathic, with the various specialists, 

 unite in their testimony as to the disastrous effects 

 of tobacco, whether for smoking, chewing, or 

 snuffing ; nor is this strange when it is the appal- 

 ling verdict of a college of physicians that twenty 

 thousand in our own land die annually from this 

 poison. The only wonder is how any doctor can 

 fail to throw the whole weight of his influence 

 against this practice. 



EXPERIENCES OF LITERARY MEN. 



A volume by A. Arthur Keade, entitled w Study 

 and Stimulants," contains the experiences of many 

 literary men in regard to stimulants, From these 

 I select but a few cases, and such as relate only to 

 tobacco. 



Among those who advocate its use are Edison, 

 Wilkie Collins, and Anthony Trollope. The lat- 

 ter, however, admits that, finding it was injuring 

 him, he gave it up for two years, when he resumed 

 smoking, substituting, however, for "three large 

 cigars daily three very small ones ; and so far as I 

 can tell," he adds, "without any effect." 



Among the total abstainers on principle from 

 tobacco, as well as from spirits and wine, are Dr. 

 Allibone, the Duke of Argyle, Kobert and Wil- 

 liam Chambers, George W. Childs, Prof. Fair- 





