274 TOBACCO. 



A few confirmatory testimonies are given as to 

 the relation between cancer and tobacco. 



Professor Bouisson, of France : "Tobacco, which 

 answers no natural want, is the most common cause 

 of cancer in the mouth." 



Dr. "William Hardwicke, coroner for Central 

 Middlesex, England : " Certain forms of cancer in 

 the lips and tongue are clearly traceable to the use 

 of tobacco." 



Dr. Charles E. Drysdale, of London: "Cancer 

 of the lip is rarely seen, except in men who smoke." 



Professor Lizars, of Edinburgh: "I have had 

 under my own treatment several cases of ulcera- 

 tion of the lips, tongue, and cheek, some of them 

 incurable, all of which occurred in persons greatly 

 addicted to smoking." 



Dr. John C. Warren, the well-known Boston 

 surgeon : " The irritation from a cigar or a pipe 

 frequently precedes cancer of the lips." 



The * Medical Times and Gazette " mentions a 

 hundred and twenty seven cancers cut from the 

 lips, nearly all the lips of smokers. 



Dr. Brown, of Manchester, England, "communi- 

 cated to the Clinical Society of London a very 

 remarkable observation on an 'ablation,' almost 

 entire, made in two operations on the tongue, 

 affected by neoplastic indurations succeeding an 

 old ichthyose of the organ. The only cause to 

 which it could possibly be attributed was tobacco." 



Eev. A. Sims gives the case of a banker in Phil- 



