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less food being required by this checking of the 

 waste of tissue, reminds one of Mr. Squeer's cus- 

 tom in Dotheboys Hall of dosing his boys every 

 morning with sulphur and treacle, in order to 

 limit their capacity for eating. 



We find it complacently stated in the public 

 prints that, "as the result of investigations recently 

 made, the professors of the University of Jena 

 affirm that moderate quantities of this weed may 

 be used with beneficial effects ; that in the German 

 army soldiers in active service are very properly 

 furnished with smoking tobacco, because smoking 

 enables them to endure severe fatigue upon smaller 

 nutrition and with greater alacrity and confidence 

 than would otherwise be the case." The ultimate 

 influence of tobacco upon the muscular force has 

 been already considered, K the greater alacrity and 

 confidence" being but transient effects of the nar- 

 cotic, as they are also of brandy and whiskey. 



Dr. Richardson: "If smoking sustains the sys- 

 tem longer without food, it does it by reducing 

 the activity of all the organs, and therewith the 

 organic power." 



In answer to inquiries, Dr. John Ellis writes : 

 "I suppose, without any reasonable doubt, that 

 tobacco, like opium and some other substances, 

 does actually retard the waste, and thereby the 

 nourishment of the tissues ; but this is really one 

 of the chief objections against its use, for it is 

 exactly ivhat we do not wdnt to do, since the health 

 and strength depend on, or are intimately associ- 



