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Paris, where the doctors styled his disease a gen- 

 eral breaking up. 



According to good medical authority, there are 

 more than fifty diseases — some say eighty-seven — 

 which spring from tobacco, or are greatly intensi- 

 fied by its use. Among these are paralysis and 

 apoplexy. 



TOBACCO- AMAUROSIS ; COLOR-BLINDNESS. 



Stille maintains that smoking " renders the 

 vision weak and uncertain, causing objects to 

 appear nebulous, or creates muscat volitantes and 

 similar objective phenomena," adding that "in 

 numerous instances it has produced amaurosis." 



Chisholm, in his report On the Poisonous Effect 

 of Tobacco on the Eyesight, states that " in the past 

 few years he had treated thirty-five cases of 

 amaurosis, directly traceable to the use of tobacco, 

 by smoking, in every case but one." 



McSherry : " When the sight fails with smokers, 

 and no appreciable change of structure can be 

 found in the eye, tobacco-poisoning may be as- 

 sumed. The assumption is converted into cer- 

 tainty by the fact that appropriate remedies fail 

 entirely while the habit of smoking is continued. 

 In rare cases the susceptibility is so great that the 

 smoking of a single cigar a day will produce it." 



Dr. Drysdale, in Tobacco and the Diseases it 

 Produces : " In one week I saw in the Koyal Lon- 

 don Ophthalmic Hospital two cases of tobacco- 

 amaurosis in young men under thirty. The first 



