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Dr. .Muiii-oc asserts tliat cvcrv oininciit i)liysiciau and sur- 

 geon, l..,tli ill l':m'()}.e and Anierira, ulio. (liirin;^ iUv last tliico 

 hundmi years, has investigated tlic eU'eets of 'I'ohaeeo upon tlie 

 huinaii system, lias uttered stiong laii^uai^o a-ainst its use. 

 Sucli ahio authorities as AI.ernethy and Sir Astley Cooper gavo 

 their verdiet against it. The British Medical .Journal mentions 

 ii physician of repute who carefully examined thirty-eight hoys 

 Avhom Ih! observed smoking, and found in all disorders of the 

 enculation and digestion, in many, serious symptoms of .lipase, 

 and more or less craving for strong drink. 



In the Massachusetts State Jlospiial, in ISI."., there were 

 eight cases ot insanity produced l.y tin; use of Tol.aee.., and 

 four cases in the Pennsylvania Ifospilal in K^ll), also [.ro- 

 diiced hy its use. 



-J. ('. Cuiin, .M. I)., says : '• ToUaeco has spoiled and utterly 

 ruined thousands of hoys; inducing a dangerous precocity, 

 developing the passions, softening and weakening tin; l.onc'S, 

 greatly injuring the spinal mairow, the hrains, and the whole 

 nervous lluid. ^\'ith very few exceptions every drunkard is a 

 Tol.acco-user, for the hankering of the one generally leads to 

 the other; and sooner or later, step l.y step, those sthnulaiits 

 destroy health, j.hysical, moral, and intellectual." 



As the result of extended professional experience and ol.ser- 

 vation, Mrs. Dr. Lo/ier atlirins that tlu; families of those who 

 use Tobacco are more subject to the class of diseases termed 

 "nervous" than those of non-usei's; that she recalls a great 

 lunnber of instances in which the sullering of women and 

 children from headache and fecjble circulation was attributable 

 to Tobacco-smoke; that thousands of children are dwarfed 

 intellectually, morally, and physically, if not killed outiight, 

 by father, brother, or some friend who i.oisons the air with 

 nicotine. A lady whose husband imbdged in this luxury 

 brought into the world several ap].arently healthy children, 

 which, though tenderly cared for, pined away and died in 

 infancy, the cause being a mystery to the pliysicians, By and 



