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alarming frequency of apoplexy, palsy, epilepsy, 

 and other diseases of the nervous system." 



" Phrenological Journal : " " Half the old tobacco 

 users are in a state of semi-imbecility. Their 

 memory is leaky, moral sense blunted, general 

 disposition impaired, and tone of both body and 

 mind let down." 



Hon. Charles Steele, of Illinois : "When given to 

 the excessive use of tobacco, I was prostrated by 

 a well denned attack of delirium tremens, and 

 from that time found it necessary to abstain entire- 

 ly from its use." 



Dr. Boerhave, of Germany: "Since the use of 

 tobacco has become so general, the number of 

 hypochondriacal and consumptive complaints has 

 increased." 



Liebig, the celebrated German chemist : " Smok- 

 ing is prejudicial to health, as much gaseous car- 

 bon is injuriously inhaled that robs the system of 

 its oxygen." 



Dr. L. E. Keeley, Keeley Institute, Dwight, 

 Illinois: "Tobacco enfeebles digestion, produces 

 emaciation and general debility. It lays the 

 foundation of nearly every nervous disorder now 

 common to the people of America. It produces 

 amaurosis and color-blindness, insanity, epilepsy, 

 bronchitis, rheumatism and asthma, dyspepsia and 

 catarrh, f tobacco-heart ' and cancer of the stom- 

 ach." 



Dr. Stille's " Therapeutics : " " It impairs diges- 



