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thetic or organic nerves, leading to paralysis in 

 them." 



" This does not leave very much of a man," re- 

 marks Mr. Marsh, M but his hair and his bones." 



Justice requires the admission that Dr. Richard- 

 son regards the diseases induced by this weed as 

 functional and not organic, so that the suspension 

 of its use not unfrequently removes the disease. 

 But he goes on to say, " In the confirmed smoker 

 there is a constant functional disturbance. . . . 

 On the ground of these functional disturbances an 

 argument may be used which cuts sharply because 

 it goes right home. . . . Why should a million 

 of men be living with stomachs that only partially 

 digest, hearts that labor unnaturally, and blood 

 that is not fully oxidized ? " 



Concerning the alleged influence of tobacco on 

 the hearing, Stille* says that it causes " a buzzing 

 and ringing in the ears, and even hallucinations of 

 this sense." 



In his essay on " The Effects of the Abuse of 

 Tobacco," read before the American Institute 

 of Homoeopathy, in June, 1884, Dr. T. F. Allen 

 writes, " Much less is known or has been reported 

 concerning the action of tobacco on the ear than 

 on the eye. Sufficient, however, is known to en- 

 able us to state that two distinct affections are 

 produced. One, an impairment of the auditory 

 nerve, recognized by a roaring sound, and di- 

 minished acuteness of hearing ; . . . the other, a 

 chronic catarrhal, inflammation of the middle ear, as- 



