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a series of years, has had an annual attack of this 

 fever." Another physician, living in a mining 

 country where all use the weed, affirms that he could 

 report hundreds of similar cases. Indeed, so far 

 from tobacco's being a protection against such dis- 

 eases, it is the opinion of many eminent doctors that, 

 by enfeebling the system, it renders men more sus- 

 ceptible to this as well as other diseases. 



AIDING DIGESTION. 



Dr. Alcott : "I have never known a dozen 

 tobacco-users — my acquaintance has extended to 

 thousands — whose digestive organs were not in 

 the end more or less impaired by it." 



Dr. Grimshaw : " Tobacco is injurious by 

 depressing the nervous powers, by injuring the 

 salivary glands, and by creating an undue secretion 

 of saliva." 



Dr. Harris of the New York Dispensary : — 

 "The functions of digestion and nutrition are 

 impaired ; and though, in some cases, tobacco may 

 for a time appear to relieve irritability of the 

 stomach, it eventually cripples and almost destroys 

 the digestive powers." 



QUIETING THE NERVES. 



The answer to this plea is found in the evidences 

 which have been adduced to prove that, however 

 soothing may be its temporary influence, the ulti- 

 mate effect is the exhaustion and shattering of the 

 nervous system. 



