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Sometimes it may, without doubt, be explained 

 on the ground of inconsideration. A physician, 

 having recommended one of his patients to smoke, 

 gave as his only reason that, as the patient was 

 old and deaf and infirm, he thought smoking might 

 be a little amusement for him! 



A young clergyman in feeble health was directed 

 by his medical adviser to smoke. Some doubt 

 being expressed on the subject, the case was 

 referred to an old physician, who indorsed the 

 smoking prescription. It seems this wise old doc- 

 tor, twenty years before, had recommended the 

 same thing to another minister. The results had 

 proved so disastrous that his attendant felt con- 

 strained to write to the veteran physician, asking 

 information as to the medical value of tobacco, 

 which had led to the prescriptions. His answer 

 was : n I have not paid sufficient attention to the 

 subject of smoking to make my opinion of the 

 slightest value." How, then, did he dare indorse 

 such a practice ? 



THE LATE DR. WILLARD PARKER'S VIEWS. 



In reporting a lecture on Tobacco, given to the 

 students of Union Theological Seminary by Dr. 

 Willard Parker, to whom I have already referred, 

 the New York Observer remarks : " Dr. Parker is 

 a physician whose fame is not bounded by the me- 

 tropolis or the nation. There is no higher author- 

 ity than he in the line of his profession." 



From this report, and from other printed matter 



