66 TOBACCO. 



on this subject by Dr. Parker, the following pas- 

 sages are taken : — 



" It is now many years since my attention was 

 called to the insidious, but positively destructive 

 effects of tobacco on the human system. I have 

 seen a great deal of its influence upon those who 

 use it and work in it. Cigar and snuff manufac- 

 turers have come under my care in hospitals and 

 in private practice ; and such persons cannot re- 

 cover soon and in a healthy manner from cases of 

 injury or fever. They are more apt to die in 

 epidemics and more prone to apoplexy and paraly- 

 sis. The same is true, also, of those who smoke 

 or chew much." 



w The use of this weed is particularly injurious 

 to studious men of sedentary habits. The odor 

 infects their clothing, study, and books, so that 

 they live and breathe in a noxious atmosphere. 

 The poison is slow, but in the second or third de- 

 cade its virus becomes manifest. The words of 

 the wise man, r Because sentence against an evil 

 work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart 

 of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil,' 

 are strikingly applicable to those who indulge in 

 this pernicious habit. There have died in Xew 

 York within a few years three excellent clergy- 

 men, all of whom might now have been alive had 

 they not used tobacco. The duty of abstaining 

 from the slow killing of one's self by this poison is 

 as clear as the duty of not cutting one's throat." 



" Tobacco is doinc: more harm in the world than 



