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are all sorts of symptoms of diagnostic import: Does an applicant fur 

 professional service use sedativi sand narcotics (alcohol, 1 <>l >.-i'-< o, opium, etc.) 

 and use them to i xe< ss, or, on the other hand, does h< use stimulants (notably 

 coffee and tea)? Whal does such use indicate? The statement is sometimes 

 made that tobacco is the poor man's friend, that after a hard day's work he 

 enjoys his pipe; it calms him. But when you study the poor man and the 

 conditions under which he works, you can see that the great trusts may well 

 make an effort to keep tobacco as cheap as possible. Offering Mr. Common 

 People a cigar, especially one with a colored band, only too often makes 

 him tolerate Avhat are really intolerable conditions. Men working for some 

 of the great trusts twelve hours a day. seven days a week, may be even too 

 tired to smoke. Tobacco is also a great solace to the soldier in tin- trenches; 

 it makes him contented, it dulls his mind and keeps him from thinking. 



COXIOSIS. 1911. As already mentioned, this paper is a general state- 

 ment of the dust theory. My time limit is running to a close and I must 

 refer you to the paper itself, which among other things treats our Triad of 

 American Diseases (catarrh, dyspepsia, and nervous prostration) as reaction-, 

 similarly regarding blood pressure changes. The term disease al once 

 brings to mind treatment, medicine, while reaction brings to mind pre- 

 vention. 



COXIOLOGY. 1912. This paper was a plea for a new science and tin- 

 need for an institution for working out problems. The dust partible- 

 emitted by the tobacco smoker are included. 



In 1913 I was unable to present my paper on RACE SUICIDE, in which 

 the subject was also traced into the schools. There I asked, as this paper has 

 already asked, regarding the use of tobacco by the teacher: Is he justified 

 in using it? If he feels cross and irritable, shall he take something or do 

 something — seek better air conditions, the proper construction of school 

 buildings and proper ventilation and general cleanliness? Child mortality 

 today is enormous. It should be greatly reduced, many bright children who 

 now die could be saved to a life of usefulness. There is much truth in the 

 old saying. The good die young. 



THE ALCOHOL PROBLEM IX THE LIGHT OF CONIOSIS. In 

 my paper for 1914 the Tobacco Problem comes up on every page, and 1 

 believe after the remarks I have made you will readily see it. I mentioned 

 how on entering medical school I found horribly bad air conditions. The 

 drinking water was equally bad; it was raw muddy river water. A number 



