Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-26
StinstIIa,ats and Tobacco.

The opinions of medical men as to the
use of stimulants as an auxiliary to in
tellectual work are, says Mr.. Arthur
Reade in Les Mondes, too diverse to have
much effect upon the habits of men of
letters. Nor are they in much better
agreement, he says, as to tobacco. That
tobacco is poison is certain; so are many
things used, not only in madeleine, but In
food. The influence of tobacco On BRAIN
work has been the subject of intermin-
able controversy, and the question has
occupied all classes of society.
One argument is that smoke helps men
to think Ito dream, rather), and it is as
serted that the journalist smokes in
writing, the man of science in solving a
problem, the artist in painting, the cler-
gyman in composing his sermon; that,
in fact, every man great in science, in
literature, IN arts, climbs the ladder of
fame with pipe or cigar in his mouth,
Tennyson has composed, it is said, his
sweetest idylls under the influence of
nicotine, Carlyle has taught the world
philosophy, smoking.
Not the young only have these ideas
According to Andrew, Moltke is great
snufftaker, and it was due to snuff that
Napoleon was so pitilessly expelled from
Belgium. Mr.. John C. Murray, in his
volume on smoking, undertakes to show
when 1t is dangerous, neutral, or bene-
fetal to smoke. He claims that
Raleigh, Milton, Dryden, Newton,
Steel, Addison, Swift. Congreve, Boil
ingbroke, Pope, Johnson, Byron, Burns
Scott, Campbell, Moore. Dickens, spoke
wrote and sang under the influence of
coffee, that plant of mystic power. But
for those who have recourse to tobacco,
he adds, their genius is generally but q
lightning-f1ash or meteor, involving
too great mental tension, likely to drag
reason from her throne and plunge 1t in
the night of chaos. Another medical
authority says that moderate use of to-
bacco is as necessary to the BRAIN worker
as moderation in the use of alcohol.
On the other hand, the adversaries of
tobacco regards the idea that smoking
helps sound thought as amost mischlev-
GUS delusion; they maintain, on the con-
trary, that it renders men incapable of
intellectual labors. Tobacco leads to.
physical and mental Incidence. Mr.
Reade considers that the use of
stimulants is subject which
should be examined in the light of the
experience of poets, artists, journalists,
men of science, authors, ETC., in Europe
and America. M. pAbbe Moigno makes
the following remarks in reply to Mr.
Arthur Reade's questions:
Though l cannot offer myself as an
example, because my temperament is too
exceptional, my experience may have
some degree of usefulness 1 have pub
lished already $50 volumes. small and
great; 1 scarcely ever leave my work
table, never take walking exercise;
yet | have not experienced any trace
of headache, brain WEAKNESS or consti-
patton, or any form of urinary trouble,
ETC., etc. Never, in order to work, or to
obtain my full clearness of mind, have
had occasion to take recourse to stimu-
lants, or coffee, or alcohol, or tobacco,
ETC.; on the contrary, in my case, stimu-
lants excite abnormal vibrations in the
brain, unfavorable to its prompt and
steady action
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