M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-11-03

n hc LAieCtS OF SmOkiuRs
The remarkable research made b.
NJ. Bouissor upon the danger Q
smoking has attracted the notice q
the Academy, and has been awardet
with high praise. The horrors hith
erto unknown, or unacknowledged
with which smokers are threatened
nay more, convicted by N. Bouisson
are sufficient, upon bare anticipation
to ruin the revenue and the pipe max
ers also. Cancer in the mouth NJ
BouisSon declares to have grown 81
frequent from the use Of tobacco tha
it now forms one Of the most dreadsC
+diseases in the hospitals, and at Mott
Ipelier, where M. Bulsson resides, the
operation of its extraction forms the
principal practice OF the surgeon;
there. In short period OF time, iron
1915 to 1859, NJ. Bouisson himself
performed sixty.eight operations fol
cancer in the lips at the hospital St.
Eloi. The writers on cancer previous
to our day mention the rare occurrence
of the disease in the lips, and it has,
therefore, become evident that it must
have increased oflate years in proper.
ton with the smoking OF tobacco.
Nj Bouisson proves this fact by the
relative increase in the French duties
on tobacco, which, in 1912, brought
an annual amount Of twenty-five mil
lions, and now give revenue OF one
hundred and thirty millions; almost
that attained by the duties on wines
and spirits, and fal beyond that rem
dered by those on sugar. NJ. Bouis-
son remarks, justly or not, that this
ilgurcs eXtrayagant as it may appear,
fades into insig ificaUce before that
attained by the British tax, which &C.
cording to DR., Seymour, amounts to
fabulous sum, ina country where boys
smoke from five o'clock in the after
noon till three o'clock in the morning
and where children are known to CON
sune as many as forty cigars in a
day ~
The use oftobacco rarely, however,
produces lip.cancer in youth. AL.
most all Of Bouisson's patients had
passed the age Of forty. In individu.
ais OF the humber classes who smoke
short pipes and tobacco OF inferior
quality, the disease is more frrquent1
than with the rich who smoke ciears
Or long pipes. 1t becomes evident,
therefore, that it is owing more to the
constant application Of heat'to the lips /.
han to the inhaling of the nicCtin, |
hat the disease is generated.
With the O:ientals who arc careful
o maintain the GOODNESS ofthe mouth.
)iece by the transmission ofthe smoke
hrough pertumed water, the disease
S unknown. . NJ. Bouisson, whose
in the cause does him the
Utmost credit, advises a general cru.
AIDE to be preached by the doctors Of
very country against the immoder.
te use Of tobacco, as being the only
means Of discriminating the habit; be. i
auSc, although the most powerful {
overeigns have been powerless to pre-. /
ent it-althongh Sultan Amurath i
threatened in vain to cut off the noses
t those who smoked, and Peter the
ireat vowed direct vengeance against
Il smokers, and even the thundcrs Of
lo Vatican have been hurled against :;
lem in vain, there is one thing which
holds in more horror than a .
useless face, or even an exconmuni.
ID soul--and that is uutilnely death. q
ct young men be once impressed },
ith this truth, and the Art of Smok. l
e, which one of our best authors -,
as lately eXtolled as the finest Of all u
le fine arts, will soon be set aside U
nd torgotten.- London Paper. e