TOBACCO. G3 



from a close room into tlie air, especially after speaking, etc. 

 JUit one of the signal causes for congestion of tlu^ luiigs is tlie 

 decreased action of t\w lieait l.y the use of Tobacco." Investi- 

 gation in France, some years ago, traced a whole ti-nin of 

 nervous dis(>ases to this practice. J Jut we need not go to i\v,\- 

 mnny or Prance for information. 



A nottid physician, ])r. IJeach, .says (American Practice) : 

 "Tohacco is an actual and virulent i)oison. One drop of the 

 chemical oil applied to the tongue of a cat productul violent 

 convulsions and caused death in one minute. A thread drawn 

 through a wouiul made l.y a needle in an animal killed it in 

 seven minutes." "Smoking and chewing Tohacco cau.scs the 

 saliva to be spit out which should be swallowed for the diges- 

 tion of the food; and so saturate the tongue and mouth with 

 Tobacco-juice as to vitiate the saliva that remain.s, which in 

 this poisonous condition finds its way into the stomach, fixing 

 its deadly grasp upon the organs of vitality, gradually under- 

 mining the health, and sowing the seeds of disease, which are 

 suie soonei- or later to take root and s[)ring uj), carrying away 

 its victim to an untimely giave. The use of Tobacco in many 

 instances causes indigestion, dyspepsia, ej)ilepsy, apoplexy, 

 cancer, scrofula, and many ujicomfortablc and alarming symp- 

 toms." 



At a lecent meeting of the Narvcau Medical Society Dr. 

 Drysdale made some remaiks on the subject, founded on the 

 observation of about two hundred cases of smoking among out- 

 patients of the Metrojiolitan Fi-ee Hospital. He stated that 

 all these cases proved that Tobacco-sn)oking was much opposed 

 to nutrition, and that it was conseijuently one of the most 

 injurious hal.its which the human race had in recent times con- 

 tracted. From his own expeiience he would say that there 

 were no perfectly healthy i)ersons who smoked. 



V>\\ Brown, an eminent ])hysician, says: "The use of 

 Tol»acco produces a dryness and huskiness of the mouth, thus 

 creating a thiist which, in many instances, is not satislied with 



