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Dr. Lizars of Edinburgh skives an account of two 

 brothers connected with a family where there was 

 no tendency to insanity, who, through this nar- 

 cotic, lost their reason and committed suicide. 



He also relates the case of a gentleman of thirty- 

 five who drank, smoked, and chewed, till attacked 

 by fits resembling epilepsy, when he was taken to 

 an insane retreat. He gave up drink, but no 

 improvement occurred till he abandoned tobacco, 

 when the fits ceased and sanity returned. 



TOBACCO-HEREDITY. 



A leading physician in one of our largest cities, 

 in speaking of those who had indulged in the use 

 of tobacco for years with seeming impunity, adds : 

 " But I have never known a habitual tobacco user 

 whose children, born after he had long used it, did 

 not have deranged nervous systems and sometimes 

 evidently weak minds. Shattered nervous systems 

 for generations to come may be the result of this 

 indulgence." 



It is claimed by some doctors that the effects of 

 tobacco on posterity are even greater than those of 

 alcohol ; that it destroys more vital force, and thus 

 saps the very foundations, transmitting a tendency 

 to disease. Sometimes, the dreadful appetite itself 

 is entailed upon the child. 



Dr. Hall : " The parent whose blood and secretions 

 are saturated with tobacco, and whose brain and 

 nervous system are narcotized by it, must trans- 

 mit to his child elements of a distempered body 



