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per cent. , while in capacity of lungs the growth is 

 in favor of the non-user by 77.5 per cent, when 

 compared with the regular users, and 49.5 per 

 cent, when compared with the irregular users. It 

 has long been recognized by the ablest medical 

 authorities that the use of tobacco is injurious to 

 the respiratory tract, but the extent of its influence 

 in checking growth in this and other directions 

 has, I believe, been widely underestimated. " 



Dr. Seaver also finds the smokers inferior in 

 scholarship : " Of those students who, within a 

 given time, have received junior appointments 

 above dissertations, only five per cent, were 

 smokers, and very few smokers received appoint- 

 ments of any kind." 



The setting forth of these facts has not been 

 without results. Dr. Seaver reports that seventy 

 per cent, of the senior class do not smoke, and not 

 a single candidate for the rowing crew is a smoker. 



Dr. Bilroth, of Vienna, an eminent surgeon : 

 '■ The colossal increase of nerve and mind disease 

 in our day is undoubtedly the result, to a great 

 extent, of the tobacco and alcohol habit, and the 

 straining of the nervous system caused by these 

 poisons." 



Dr. Amos Twitchell, of Keene, X.H. : "It pro- 

 duces its most pernicious effects by paralyzing 

 the action of the nerves of involuntary motion. 

 Among the diseases it occasions are palsy, invet- 

 erate nervous headache, palpitation of the heart, 



