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ing by heart some fifteen hundred root words in 

 various languages; but, under the influence of the 

 narcotic, these were all dropping from his memory. 

 He felt this to be so great a trial that he finally 

 renounced the habit. He writes : M It was the 

 commencement of a veritable resurrection of health, 

 mind, and memory, and the army of words that 

 had run away has gradually returned." 



The following item is taken from another source. 

 Algernon Charles Swinburne, wandering one day 

 from room to room at the Art Club, in the vain 

 search for a clear atmosphere where he could write, 

 at last exclaimed in poetic indignation : " James 

 the First was a knave, a tyrant, a fool, a liar, a 

 coward; but I love him, I worship him, because 

 he slit the throat of that blackguard Kaleigh, who 

 invented this filthy smoking." 



MEDICAL INCONSISTENCIES. 



Of a physician who is not only indifferent to 

 this great evil, but who himself makes use of the 

 drug, what shall be said? His tell-tale breath as 

 he bends over his suffering patient, the very smell 

 of his garments to one for whose recovery God's 

 pure air is a first necessity, — what can be urged 

 in his defence ? Said a refined and highly intelli- 

 gent woman, " I would never employ a physician 

 who used tobacco." 



But whatever rights the doctors may claim so 

 far as their own use of the weed is concerned, 

 what plea can be made for those who prescribe 



