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disease of the liver, indigestion, ulceration of the 

 stomach, piles, and many others." 



W. A. Axon, in "Popular Science Monthly:" 

 "By causing irregularity in supply of blood, it 

 degrades tissues." 



" The Lancet : " " Dr. Chadnovski published in 

 the c Ruskayer Meditsina ' an account of a series of 

 observations made on twelve soldiers in a military 

 hospital, who were perfectly well with the excep- 

 tion of slight injuries. Six of the men were smok- 

 ers and six non-smokers. In the former the time 

 required for digestion averaged seven hours, while 

 in the case of non-smokers the mean period of di- 

 gestion was only six hours." 



Dr. Copeland, F.R.S. : " Smoking weakens the 

 digestion and assimilating functions, impairs the 

 due elaboration of the chyle of the blood, and pre- 

 vents a healthy nutrition of the several strictures 

 of the body." 



Dr. Mussey : " Physicians meet with thousands 

 of cases of dyspepsia connected with the use of 

 tobacco." 



Dr. McAllister, of Utica : " The habitual smoker 

 weakens the organs of digestion and assimilation, 

 and at length plunges into all the accumulated 

 horrors of dyspepsia." 



Dr. Darwin, of England: "Tobacco produces 

 diseases of the salivary glands and the pancreas, 

 and injures the power of digestion." 



Dr. Rush, of Philadelphia : "It impairs appetite, 



