The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-05-12

work in the factories, the operatives
inhaling its dust and absorbing its
poison, so that, according to the doc
tors, it takes only four years of the
work to kill off the worker"
In the Bellevue Hospital there were
recently fifty patients suffering from
one of the most fearful and incurable
of maladies, contracted from cigars
manufactured in tenement houses, by
diseased persons, the finishing touch
being given by the teeth and tongue.
Among the physicians who have
traced several similar cases to this
source may be named DIR. L. Duncan
Bulkley, of New Y ork.
That most terrible Of diseases, de-
lirium tremens, which was formerly
regarded as due ouly to alcohol, is now,
by DR.. Abraham Spoor and other
learned doctors, ascribed largely 'to
the eXasperating agency OF tobacco
upon the human nerves and organ
ISM"
A French physician, who had stud
led the effects Of smoking on thirty
eight boys, between nine and fifteen,
gives us the result that twenty-seven
presented marked symptoms Of nico-
tine poisoning; twenty-three, serious
arrangement of the intellectual fac
ulties and strong appetite for alco-
holic drinks; three, heart disease;
eight, decided deterioration of the
blood; twelve, frequent nose-bleed;
ten, disturbed sleep; and four ulcera-
tion of the mouth in its mucous mem
brane. These facts are given on the
authority Of the British Medical Jour-
nal.
In Germany, the mischief done to
growing boys has been found to be so
great that the German Government
has ordered the police to forbid lads
under sixteen from smoking in the
street. On our streets we behold a
vast and ever-increasing number of
Young Americas who evidently con-
slider smoking or chewing essential to
their manliness. And alas! our police
have no orders to forbid it. How en-
phatically Nature protests against this
repulsive alien almost every tobacco
user can testify. | give here but a
single instance. In a neighborhood
of smoking boys Dio Lewis made an
experiment on lad who had never
used the weed, giving him a pill Of
plug tobacco to chew. He grew fear
fully sick, became pale as death, while
a cold sweat crept over him, and soon,
in the midst Of violent retchings, he
had to be carried into the open air.
Yet what pains are taken and what
obstacles conquered in forming the
habit! A lady, not long since, met on
the street a three-year-old with
black stick in his mouth. She begged
him to throw it away, promising him
a nice present if he would; but he
held on to his stick, asserting that he
liked smoking and meant to smoke
himself when big enough
A few words should be said as to
cigarette smoking, which is becoming
so prevalent and which is thought by
some to be quite harmless. A physi-
clan, who had strong suspicious ON the
subject, for his own satisfaction, had
a cigarette analysed. The tobacco
was found to be strongly impregnatea
with opium, while the wrapper, war
ranted to be rice paper, proved to be
common white paper whitened with
arsenic. Thus the cigarette subtly
combines a three-fold deadly bane,
proving in the end, perchance, as
fatal to the unwary as the poisoned
garment Of Nessus to the unsuspect-
ing Hercules.
1t is asserted that during the last
fifty years no devotee of tobacco has
graduated from Harvard at the head of
his class, although .f0e-sirths of the
students are addicted to its use!
A late report by the Medical De-
partment Of the United States Naval
Academy, at Annapolis Maryland,
enumerates the following as the re-
suit of the use Of tobacco in the
school:
Functional arrangement of the digestive, circula-
tory and nervous systems manfesting themselves in
memory impaired power Of attention lassitnde in
dyspepsia' papitation, tremuioasness, disturbed
sleep, Impaired vision etc, any of which materi
fhe Board are Of opno1 that regGa
ton the n IN %
should be wholly interdlcted especial should be
deleterious practice.
On similar grounds, without doubt,
it has been recommended by the Board
of Visitors and Directors of West
Point that the use of tobacco be pro-
hibited among the cadets.
In addressing the graduating law
class of the Wisconsin State Univers-
ity, ex-senator Doolittle said:
I verify believe that the mental force power of
labor and endurance of our is decreased at
poisonous narcotic effects reduce the power of the
less consumption Of time and money takes away
per cent Of the Workhg hogrS If 1t does
Processes Moses Stuart, who, after
having used tobacco TWENTY-FIVE years,
broke off the habit, writes:
That il undermines the health of thousands: that it
creates nervous irritability and thus operates on
the temper and moral character of men, that often
to clubs and grog-shops and taVerns; and, finally
i hat be ene ahd hd m 6 be
S0 RSW sb es e Of to @ 9 or by has
proper regard to his own usefulness?"
If medical names are of any avail, |
a goodly array might be cited-such |
as Muzzey, Pidduck, Brodie, Jackson,
Tyrell, Cleland, Parker, Rush, Carlyon,
Woodward, Hall, Spoor, Twitchell, |
Warren, and host of others, both in
our country and in Europe. Nor is
this strange, when it is the appalling
testimony of college of physicians
that twenty thousand in our own
land die annually from this poison.
The only wonder is how any doctor
can fail to throw the whole weight Of
his influence against this practice.
In the words of DR.. Budgett:
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