Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-03-19
MISCELLANY.
Tobacco - It's Elects on the Human
Constitution, Physical, Intellectual
and Moral.
BY JAMES COULTER LAYARD, NJ. D.

s. CONTINUED
LrFICre OF TOBACCO ON THE PERSONAL
APPEARANCE.
The effects of tobacco on the personal
appearance are often great and striking.
1t is remarked that those who are EN-.
ployed in tobacco factories and in tobac-
co stores have @ yellow. dried up look
look which is not symptoa,atic of any
known disease, but which is peculiar,
characteristic, and indcscribabie. They
carry with them the appearance Of pre-.
mature old age. It's effects on the users
of tho weed are, TO a greater or less ex-
tent, the same. We can almost always
detec: in the withered, blear-cyed old
crone, the devoite of the pipe. Thosc
who wish. therefore, to preserve a fresh.
rosy complexion, youthful appearance,
and their good looks generally. had bet
ter avoid the seductions Of the Indian
weed.
IRIS EFFECTS ON TINE MIND AND INTEL.
LECT.
1t is an acknowledged principle in
physiology that whatever enfeebles the
body must, in the end, in some degree
enfeeble the mind. This lie pre,eminent.
ly true of tobacco. That it causes loss
of memory. is fact long known to ply
sicians. Such was the opinion of DR.
Cullen, the celebrated physician and
medical author of Edinburgh. Such was
the opinion Of Dr. Rush. the father OF
American Medicine Other men of note
too, besides physicians have testified to
the same fact, The Able Migne, in a
letter OF late date to the director Of one
Of the great seminaries iu Paris, CON-
demning the use Of tobacco. makes men,
ton Of j, In this connection, NJ Moig.
no, author Of various mathematical trea-
tises, gives his own experience. He was
an inveterate snuffer and smoker. FROM
which he says he experienced diminish
cd seu.ibility Of the nervous system aud
a rapid loss of memory. not only Of
things which occurred some tune previ-
ously, bat of passing events. Ho had
learned several languages by their roots.
but wa. often at q loss for a word.-
Alarmed at this condition of things. he
resolved to renounce the use of enuff
and cigars forever He soon after re-
covered his memory completely, and
also his nervous sensibility. NJ. Berillon
found that of the pupils attending the
Polytechnic. at Paris, 1O2 smoked, while
So did not. Arranging the two categor-
les in the order of merit, according to the
result of the examinations, he found that
the non smokers held in every grade the
higher rank, and that smokers deteriora-
ted from their entering to their leaving
the school. Facts like these induced
the Minister Of Public instruction, in
1861, to issue to the directors Of colleges
and schools throughout the French En-
pire. circular, forbidding tobacco to the
students.
No close abserver can have failed to
notice the effects Of tobacco in producing
irritsbility of temper. A religious jour
nal Of late date says "One whom We
had long known, esteemed, and admired
for his former piety and his bright and
ready conversational powers. is now SO
engrossed with his pipe that simple
question has to be put to him the second
time before bis attention can be gained /;
and he is so irritable, go short, and SO in
different in his replies. and 60 intent on
his smoking, as to put an end to social
Every one has observed the morose
ness Of the habitual smoker, when de-
prived for length of time of his accus-
toned indulgence. How quick to take
oifense, how short and grabbed, perhaps
sarcastic, in his replies. But let him for
a few minutes got pipe or q cigar be-
tween his teeth, a. the smoke curls in
graceful wrsaths about bis head, bis face
relaxes into broad smile, and hs BE-