78 TOBACCO. 



Dr. Townson, another physician to insurance 

 companies, stated that nearly every one of those 

 whom he had rejected had an affection of the heart 

 from excessive smoking. 



Dr. E. Smith found that after smoking eleven 

 minutes his pulse had risen from seventy-four to a 

 hundred and twelve beats. Another physician, 

 who counted his pulse every five minutes during 

 an hour's smoking, computed that it had beat a 

 thousand times in excess. 



Dr. Magruder, Medical Examiner of the United 

 States Navy, affirms that " one out of every hundred 

 applicants for enlistment is rejected because of 

 irritable heart, arising from tobacco-poisoning." 



According to official statement, "Thousands in 

 our civil war were discharged from the army on 

 account of heart-disease, owing largely to the use 

 of tobacco." 



Dr. Bowditch, formerly chairman of the State 

 Board of Health, and one of the most eminent 

 physicians in Boston, considers tobacco nearly as 

 dangerous and deadly as alcohol, and pronounces 

 a man with a " tobacco heart " as badly off as a 

 drunkard. 



Dr. Twitchell : " The sedative effect of tobacco 

 upon the brain is so great that it often requires an 

 act of the will to stimulate the involuntary muscles 

 to action, so that when sleep arrests this will-power 

 these muscles cease to act, the breathing stops, and 

 the person is found dead in his bed, — f from 

 heart-disease ' say his friends, but in reality from 



