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harm. And the fact that its use follows the law 

 of increase, makes it much more damaging than if 

 the law were otherwise. Besides, it retards the 

 change of tissue, so necessary to young people. 

 Its check on virility has not been made sufficiently 

 plain." 



TOBACCO AND CAXCER. 



The following is from the British Medical Jour- 

 nal: — 



n As to whether smoking may be the immediate 

 cause of cancer, surgeons are not agreed ; but there 

 is a condition of the tongue which is, in many 

 cases, the precursor of epithelioma, namely, f leu- 

 coplakia ; ' and this disease is more generally con- 

 sidered to be caused by smoking. Mr. Barker, 

 writing on this inflammation, points out that among 

 seventy-five recorded cases, seventy-one smoked, 

 and only four were non-smokers. Buzenet used 

 the term 'plaques des furaeurs ' for this disease, be- 

 cause he was convinced that smoking so often gave 

 rise to it. Mr. Hulke has more than once shown 

 that f leucoplakia ' ma}* be the starting-point of epi- 

 thelioma ; and out of the above-mentioned seventy- 

 live cases, forty-four developed epithelioma, and 

 in one only was there a family history of cancer." 



THE VICTOR VANQUISHED. 



Since the above pages were in type, Ulysses S. 

 Grant, our greatest American general, whose deeds 



