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as almost wholly to prevent sleep. Neither the 

 patient himself nor his medical attendants had any 

 doubt that the disease was to be attributed to his 

 habit of smoking, on the discontinuance of which 

 he gradually recovered." 



Another physician : " The natural vibration be- 

 tween excessive action of the brain and correspond- 

 ing depression, caused by tobacco, is mental 

 unbalancing and overthrow. Memory is weakened, 

 the perceptions are blunted, cowardice is engen- 

 dered, the power of the will enervated, and insanity 

 is the result." 



From a long array of nervous cases by dis- 

 tinguished physicians, I have gathered the following 

 symptoms : — great mental depression, weak- 

 ness of voluntary muscles, neuralgia local and 

 general, trembling, vertigo, difficulty in standing 

 steadily or moving directly, shaking palsy, convul- 

 sions, uncontrollable nervous tremors, a cataleptic 

 condition, hysterics, twitching of the flexor muscles 

 of the whole body, palpitation, movements and 

 gesticulations like St. Vitus' dance, startings from 

 sleep, insomnia, epileptic tits, choking sensations, 

 rush of blood to the head, cramps, numbness, 

 paralysis, shocks in the epigastrium like elec- 

 tricity. 



In almost every case a suspension of the 

 tobacco-habit brought relief, while with a return 

 to it the symptoms came back. 



We learn that Mr. Andreas Hofer, who was 

 grandson of the Tyrolean patriot shot by order of 



