The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-02-23

EDIToRs CLARION: Believing as I do
that the following condemned deliniatior
OF the evils resulting from the use of to
tacco. taken from the laws of life. might b,
productive of good, will be much obligef
II You will give il an insertion in your
widely circulated paper:
This weed Is the deadliest poison
known. which human beings habitually use
Its effects on the humanlsystem are varied
| and deleterious in proportion TO the organs
affected. The arrangements which the ha-
bitual use of tobacco produces. are az fol-
lows:
1. Headache ever the eyes.
2. Nervous headache without sickness
3. Nervous headache with sickness of the
stomach.
/ 4. Deafness.
). Partial blindness, or annamosis.
6. Running at the eyes.
z. Cancer of the lips.
cough.
9. Asthma
10. Dyspepsia.
II. Palpitation of the heart.
IL. Paralysis of the upper part Of the
body.
head and neck.
IA. Swelling of the gums, and rotting OF
the teeth.
| Is. Enfeeblement of the Iymphatics.
~. Enlargement of the glands of the face
and neck, making the chewer thick about
the cheek and lips
Il. LethaFgv.
Is. Morbid appetite for spirituous Ii
10. Morbid appetite for food, especially
high fiayored food.
20. Indistinct taste.
Il. Indistinct smell.
Y. Imperfect sense of touch.
%. Obtrusness of the moral sense.
"A. Cncleanliness of person.
.. Stentorian- or snoring sleep.
70. sense of deafness and of great de-
bility, on first waking from sleep, until one
has had chew, or a smoke.
q. Confirmed and incurable disease and
premature DEATH
1t would seem, that a calm, deliberate re-
view of the preceding delineation of the
evils resulting from the use of tobacco,
which alas Is but too true, should be suf-
f1cient TO influence every person, who had
not formed the habit, never TO form it and
also to induce all who have formed the habit
to break it off at once and forever.
For the encouragement of those who may
be disposed to relinquish the habit. / could
give some interesting cases of success, and
that happy consequences resulting there
from. Mr.. A. L. gave up the habit about
twelve months since, after using tobacco for
in his health Hon. III. @. j. relinqushed
the habit twenty-six years ago, after in
dulging in the use of the article forty-t three
years. In his case the improvement of his
health was so marked, that in "a few months
after giving up the use of tobacco he dis
pensed with spectacles, which he had been
obliged to use for several years previous 20
that time, and be has not used them since,
now in his eighty-ninth year. TIE i'm
proyeuent in his eyesight being produced,
as he believes, from giving up the Use of to-
bacco, other cases equally interesting in
their character could be given. But let
those suffice for the present. From pretty
close observation of the influence of this
and other injurious habits, made in the
practice of medicine for thirty-six years,
car safely say that l have never known a
person to give up the habit without being
benefited thereby. In fact in many forms
OF chronic disease, especially in peasons
of highly nervous temperament, the relin
punishment of the habit seems to be almost
a siHd qua non condition to ultimate, perma-
nent success.
Most Sincerely yours,
81 ALEXANDER. NJ. ID.
Clinton, Kinds Co. Miss, Jan. %, 1871.