Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-08
HEALTH COLUMN.
Tobacco.
BY DIR. JAA. DUNLAP.


original monograph, we are aware we are
giant-one that is doing as
much toward devaltalizing the physical
constitution of the people as spurious liq-
uors and therefore deserving of the can
did attention of the medical writer for your
columns, but more worthy of the serious
of those who are addicted to
its habitual USE
So far as we are able to learn, it was
first used by the aborigines of this coun-
try.
1t was then adopted by the Spaniards.
In the year 1860, 1t was introduced into
France by Nicot an ambassador of Spain.
Sir Walter Raleigh introduced it into
England. 1t makes, however, but very
little difference about the origin of its
use. 1t is our business to deal with it as
a pernicious practice-a practice whose
penal consequences should be made known
to those of the rising generation, who
have not yet become the victims of its
remorseless grasp.
If the testimony of those who are fnlly
under the dominion of both habits Gm-
bibing spirits and using tobacco) is of
any value, the latter is more tenacious in
its hold upon its votaries than the form
er. In almost every instance they will
inform You, they would rather be with
out whiskey than tobacco, for their crav
ings for the former are not so intense.
Observation, without experience, will
convince any one, that the rule of King
Alcohol over his subjects, is nothing less
than that of the most rigid despot; yea
more severe than human potentates dare
exercise over their subjects. Considering
the weakness of human nature, how im-
portant it is then, that we should avoid
the clutch of dictator even more austere
than the great demon-Alcohol. This
enemy Of our health is also more deceit
ful in its approach upon US than Intem-
perance, and therefore more liable to en-
trap us in his meshes.
Young man, let him not betray you
with kiss. Listen not to him when
he tells you that you are not gentleman
until you can puff a cigar, and carry to-
bacco box in your pocket filled ready for
your own use, and to supply those who
are just out Of the article. Beware of him
He carries dagger ready to stab you In
your vitals-ready to draw your hearts
blood
Instead of decreasing, the use of this
noxious weed is becoming more universal
as time advances.
Any one who will pause and look
around them, will readily perceive that
such is the case. The facts in the premis-
es will also bear me out in the assertion.
The citizens of Plymouth and Marshall
County are not an exception to the gen.
eral rule, but are as perverse as the rest of
weak humanity, in the use of this dele
ferrous and filthy agent. To prove that
tobacco is one of the most virulent pois-
ons in nature, and therefore injurious to
health, we have only to refer to medical
works, and to those who have expert
mented with it upon dogs, cats, &c.
A single drop of the concentrated oil,
or of Nicotia, the active principle, in the
state of solution, placed upon the tongue
of dog or cat is capable of destroying
life in few minutes.
1t acts principally upon the nervous
system-upon the brain and spinal cord,
but more especially upon the great sym
pathetic system of nerves, that supplies
the nervous influence required by the
heart, arteries, lungs and digestive organs
to enable them to perform their functions,
and thereby to sustain the life of the
body.
In those not accustomed to its use, and
when taken in an excessive quantity by
those who habitually use it, tobacco gives
rize to dizziness, stupor, faintness, severe
retching, with the most distressing and
continued nausea, vomiting, great feeble
ness of pulse, GOODNESS of the skin, gener-
al debility of the nervous and circulatory
system, and sometimes convulsions.
Used persistently, it causes some or all
cf the following symptoms and diseases
drowsiness, unnatural sleep, frightful
dreams, tendency to paralysis, dyspep-
sia, melancholy, peevishness, loss OF
memory, dullness of perception, general
WEAKNESS, debility and trembling of the
extremeties, cramps in the muscles, loss Of
flesh, headache, deafness, blindness, and
even consumption.
The ABOVE are only few of the devia-
! tions from health caused by the inordin-
ate use of this deadly poison.
| So nauseous is even the taste Of it that
in all the animal kingdom, but one ami
NAL has been discovered which will taste
1.-THE tobacco worm, whose visage is
disgusting, and which, we suppose, was
designed by the creator to feed upon it.
! Furthermore, it is expensive, costing
the Inhabitants of the United States more
than $25.000.000, annually; and even the
professed christians of our country more
than $5,000,0OO.
Better far, if this money was applied ts