Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-02-26
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deadly. which is obtained by distilliug
the leaves at temperature above that
of boiling water that is, by destrxc-
tire distizlatiox. 1t is alec developed
by burning the weed. Smokers, there
fore, get the especial benefit Of it,
We refer to the empyrexmatic oil of
tobacco. Least any one should think
that smoking is form of rsing the
weed less deleterious than the others,
We would here state that one drop of
this oil placed upon the tongue of .
cat caused the death of the animal in
too misut-s with convulsions. A drop
brought in contact with the protruding
tongue of a serpent killed it like q
stroke of lightning.
Smokers get this extremely poison
Gus principle in addition to the others.
which chewers and snufFers get. The
sole reason why smoking does not
seem to be so harmful as the other
forms of using the weed is because
this habit is not so steadily and per-
sistently indulged in as the others. A
man can chew tobacco and attend to
other business at the same time. A
tobacco chewer can-most of them do
carry a quid in his cheek during the
whole of his waking hours. But when
a man smokes other business has TO
be for the most part laid aside There
fore the votaries of the pipe and the
cigar can indulge in their favorite pas
time only at intervals.
We all know how smoke of any
kind will blacken a whited wall, or
the glass in the windows. This it
does by depositing thereon the fine
particles Of which it consists. Chem
ical analysis shows the tmoke of to-
bacco to be composed of salts of am
monia, nicotianine, empyseumatic oil
and several gases. Now the lungs
consist of millions of air vesicles,
which if spread out would cover q
surface equal in extent to the external
surface of the body. Every inhalation
of the smoke of tobacco taken leaves
some of its particles ini the. lungs
From them it is absorbed into the
blood. and circulates with it through
every part of the system, permeating
every tissue, and poisoning its every
fiber.
That tobacco does lodge in the It's
sues is evident from the following fact.
The hydropathists have among their
processes one which they call the 1et
sheet pack. The patent is enveloped
first in wet sheet. and then-over
this-in blankets. BY this process
they claim that through the operation
of the principles of dosmose and eros
NOSE, the water of the sheet is made
to enter the body. while at the same
time impurities are Withdrawn there
from. Now let the habitual user of
tobacco be subjected for an hour to
this process. When. at the expiration
of that time. his developments are
taken of, the odor of tobacco coming
from his body, and from.tbe sheet in
which he has lain, will be as percep.
tible to every one present as though a
cigar had just been smoked in the
room.
We might suppose that the constant
introduction into the system by chew
ing. smoking. snuf6ng, ETC.. of so pow
erful poison would have a great in
huence In tho production and devel-
opment of numerous diseases. That
such is the fact We have the testimony
of physicians of the highest eminence
in their profession, both in this coun-
try and in Europe, and also the re-
corded experience and observation Of
other men Of note in every part of the
civilized world.
DR.. Shew enumerates eighty-seven
distinct diseases which are produced
by the use of tobacco. We have room
to mention only a few, and that of
those which physicians are most gen.
really agreed are either wholly caused,