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tobacco-paralysis of the heart and muscles of in- 

 spiration. " 



Dr. Corson relates the case of a smoker who, 

 having suffered greatly for seven years, was one 

 day seized with intense pain in the chest, a gasping 

 for breath, and a sensation as if a crowbar were 

 pressed tightly against his breast and then twisted 

 in a knot round the heart, which would cease 

 beating and then leap wildly, the heart being 

 found to miss every fourth beat. For twenty- 

 seven years, similar, though milder, attacks con- 

 tinued, sometimes two or three times a day. He 

 grew thin and pale as a ghost. At length he gave 

 up tobacco, and in a few weeks the paroxysms 

 ceased, he grew stout and hearty, and for twenty 

 years has enjoyed excellent health. 



Mr. Carpenter : " The smoker's sore throat, and 

 diseases of the tongue and gums are notorious." 



Lip and tongue cancers are not infrequent results 

 of continuous smoking. Of the latter Dr. Lizars 

 gives some terrible instances. One of the victims 

 he describes as " writhing in agony, unable to 

 speak or swallow, his tongue having mouldered 

 quite away." 



We learn from the public journals that Senator 

 Hill's cancer was the result of smoking, " the nico- 

 tine being absorbed by a blister on the tongue/' 



Catelain, "the Parisian Delmonico," died of what 

 is called the smoker's cancer. He had the unen- 

 viable distinction of being regarded as the greatest 

 smoker in the world, his daily allowance for thirty 



