266 TOBACCO. 



ADDITIONAL MEDICAL TESTIMONY. 



A prominent dentist recently said that the use 

 of tobacco gave his profession more than half of 

 their business. 



Dr. Zulinski has published, in a Warsaw medi- 

 cal journal, a paper giving the results of the inves- 

 tigations of years upon the effect of tobacco smoke 

 in the case of men and animals. He declares it to 

 be, even in small doses, a distinct poison. He 

 finds such smoke, over and above its nicotine, to 

 have a second toxical principle called colidine, 

 with also oxide of carbon, and hydrocyanic acid. 



Dr. Maxon, of Syracuse, known for his emphatic 

 opposition to tobacco in every form, writes : 

 rr Whether operating through the nervous sys- 

 tem, or by entering the circulation, tobacco di- 

 rectly diminishes vitality. And there can be 

 no doubt that the physical prostration it pro- 

 duces may account for the fact that nearly every 

 drunkard first used tobacco." Dr. Maxon also 

 states that delirium tremens sometimes results 

 from its use, the cases of two clergymen thus 

 affected having fallen under his observation. 



Dr. O. S. Sanders, an eminent Boston physi- 

 cian : ff I am fully convinced, from clinical obser- 

 vation of forty years' practice, that tobacco pro- 

 duces blood-poison, and that its effect on the 

 nervous system is appalling. 



"Its pathological action is through the spinal 

 cord and pneumogastric nerve, affecting the stom- 



