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has been detected in the tissues of the lungs and 

 liver after death." 



The wonderful pervasiveness of nicotine is illus- 

 trated by a singular case related in a recent journal- 

 A lady in one of our western towns being brought 

 very low from illness, her physician recommended 

 transfusion of blood, which was accordingly taken 

 from the arm of her son. The young man was a 

 smoker, and soon after the experiment the mother 

 complained of the taste of tobacco in her mouth ! 

 The result, as a wise man might have foreseen, was 

 unfavorable. 



Dio Lewis, in "Dr. Holbrook's Hygiene of the 

 Brain and Nerves : " " If a man wishes to train for 

 a boat race, his trainer will not let him use tobacco. 

 If he wishes to train for a long walk, his trainer 

 will not let him touch a cigar. If he will train 

 himself to graduate from a college with honor, he 

 must not use tobacco. It is a powerful poison 

 and the brain cannot escape it if it be used in any 

 form." 



Dr. Warren P. Lombard, in an article entitled 

 "Some of the influences which affect the power of 

 voluntary muscular contractions,'" that appeared in 

 the "Journal of Physiology." Anions: the influ- 

 ences treated of is tobacco. " Smoking was found 

 to have a very depressing effect upon the strength 

 of the voluntary muscular contractions. This was 

 seen when a light cigar was smoked just before 

 each test of the strength during a number of days, 



