The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-02-14

not so soon nor so severely suffer as 9th.
ers. Tobacco Injuries ndtive-born Ameri-
Cans sooner and perhaps more than Ger
mans those of nervous temperament
and sedentary life quickest and most
fatally.
There is a wonderful power in the hu-
man stomach to resist and neutralize the
poison Of drugs and drinks. Some can
take opium for years with apparent i'm
punity Hungarians eat arsenic daily, as
they think without any harm. Ii is Of
ten amid natural laws as it is under the
Divine moral government Because sen
tence against an evil work is not executed
speedily, therefore the hearts OF the sons
of men is fully set in them TO do evil. :
Nevertheless it is as sure as fate that all
these stimulants and narcotics derange
the organization, and, sooner or later
strike at the life.
/. Medical authorities agree in teach
ing that one Of the effects Of smoking.
soonest noticed, is partial paralysis OF the
nerves distributed TO the heart; whence
comes hurried and enfeebled action Of
that organ This induces pa ,pita,'on, and
not seldom is a chief cause OF those or
ganic arrangements ending in fatal heart
disease.
2. Vertigo or dizziness Of the head.
caused by irregular supply Of arterial
blood in the brain, (Which the labOring
heart can but intermittingly furnish,) is
a common result Of the free use of tobacco.
3. Injury OF the retina and nervous
tissues OF the eye is another effect. An
eminent English physician state. that out
OF thirty patients suffering from
ama,Hosis, (loss Of sight by paralysis Of the
optic nerve,) twenty-three were inveter-
ate smokers.
A. DR.. Willard Parker, eminent au.
thority Of New York city. says, "It is now
many years since my attention was called
to the insidious, but positively destruct-
i've effects Of tobacco on the human sys-
tenn" have seen a great deal Of its
influence upon those who use il and
work in it. Cigar and snuff manufactur-
ers have come under my care in hospitals,
and in private practice and such per-
sons cannot recover soon and in a henthy
manner from cases of injury or fever
They are more apt to die in epidemics.
and more prone to apoplexy and paraly
sis. The same is true also Of those who
smoke or chew much. These statements
receive confirmation in DR.. STILES great
work on Materia Medica See vol. 2. PIP.
373, 374
x.
Diseases Of Modern Life by Doctor
Richardson, Of London Opp. 32l, 322,)
sums up the effects of tobacco, thus -
Smoking produces disturbances ~ he
blood, causing undue huidity and change
in the red corpuscles in He stomach,
giving rise to debility, nausea, etc lin
the mucous membrane Of the mouth i'm
the heart, producing debility of that organ
and irregular action in the organs Of sense.
causing in the extreme degree dilatatioa
of the pupils of the eye, confusion Of
vision-with other analogous symptoms
affecting the ear; in ne train, impairing
the activity of that organ, and expressing
it. if it be duly nourished, but soothing
it, il it be exhausted"
Z. Perhaps the worst thing to be said
OF tobacco is the medical testimony which
follows: The parent whose blood and
secretions are saturated with tobacco, and
whose brain and nervous system are semi
by it, must transmit TO his
child elements of distempered body and
erratic mind a defanged condition OF
organic atoms, which elevates the animal
ism of future being at the expense OF the
moral and intellectual nature And
here is the law of hereditary transmits
sion or penalty. Exodus Xxx, 4. 5, 6. y
Visiting the iniquity Of the fathers upon
the children. to the third and fourth
generations of them that hate Ne" Thus
innocent ones are often made lifelong
sufferers by their drinking. smoking or
licentious parents. And il is coming now
TO be further known (what is an answer
TO the apologies Of those who indulge
their .grosser appetites on the ground |
that such habits do not hurt them selves |
that persons inheriting good constitu |
lions, of laborious life in the open air I
will manifest for years comparatively lit .
lie concious injury for their vices-while !
children born 10 them grow up from birth, /
weakly, nervous, with the hereditary |
Iaints, and sometimes epileptics or ifnbe I
,ilel And these known results might be /.
inferred from the fact that tobacco chew I
I'd is quickly absorbed into the system /
rom the mouth; deranges the action Of .
The heart; is an energetic "depressment' /
of the nervous system; while habitual I
smoking carries the deadly nicotine /
through the lungs into the arterial blood, |
1epraving the very springs Of life. Were /
i not that mothers are generally of pur- /
Pr life and purer blood than fathers. the /
leplorable results e offspring would be I
lar more widely manifest than now.
The subjoined resolutions were uQani- /
nously adopted by the association at the /
Of the committee:
l. That the tobacco habit is an enorm- /
0us evil and that on account of its wastes 4
of money positive injuries to health, and /
pernicious example to the young, Chris. /
.ians ought to abandon the use, as a lux /
lry, entirely.
,. That this association earnestly re /
to all our churches immediate /
and thorough measures for instructing 4
the people as the manifold mischiefs flow /
ing from the use Of narcotic drugs as well \
as drinks; and that special efforts be .
made to guard children and youth from I
any and every use of tobacco.
g. That a copy Of the preceding report /
be sent to the secretaries of the American 4
Tract Society. with request that they /
examine it, with view OF publishing its /