Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-26
Tobacco and its Effects.
CONTINUED from last Week.


Excellent reading for all. Taken
from DR.. G.. T. Writer'S monograph
in the Report of the State Board of
Health
"Mr smoked freely from
The age of twelve. At the age of sixty
five was obliged to have a Cancer
removed from the lower lip. due in my
Judgment to the use of tobacco"
Il had a fair opportunity to notice
these diseases as they have from Sine
to time appeared in one form or another
| have treated several Epithelical Can
GERS which l have no doubt were the
direct results of the long continued
use Of tobacco, combined with the
irritating effects of the pipe or cigar
have had two cases of Epithelical
Cancer supposed to have been the re-
suit of smoking, but l cannot give
details"
II have had two cases of Cancer of
the lip, one caused by using pipe
which had been used for many years
and was saturated with the empyreu-
matte oil"
81 have seen one case of Epithe-
lioma of lip, from the use of an old
pipe: also case of Cancer of pos
terror portion of tongue in an inces-
SAINT chewer; it proved fatal''
II have seen several cases of ulcer
alton of the lips, and two of Cancer
of the lip, undoubtedly caused by use
of pipe
81 have operated upon three cases
Of Cancer of the lips directly trace
able to the use of pipe
GA young man aged thirty had
smoked necessarily for ten years at
the expiration of the first year of his
practice an ulcer developed upon the
tongue near the center, which greatly
annoyed him, but not suspecting that
tobacco had anything to do with it he
continued to smoke to excess. At
last he was compelled to stop because
he could not put pipe in his mouth
without excrueiating pain, and then
he began to improve. [ have no
doubt that tobacco was the original
cause of the whole difficulty; since
abandoning it he has grown better
steadily"
QUESTION Z. "Do your observa-
ton and experience enable you to
enumerate any constitutional derange-
ments resulting from the use of tobac-
CO? e. G, Dyspepsia, Disease of the
stomach, heart, ETC.,
Ninety per cent. of those questioned
say yes; two per cent. say no; and
the rest make no reply.
81 frequently meet with and treat
cases of Dyspepsia, Nervous irrita-
ton, Palpitation of the heart, nervous
depression and the like. which are
traceable directly to the excessive use
of tobacco. In all such cases, if the
trouble be not too far advanced, re-
covery is quite probable on the entire
discontinuance of the habit"
Il am fully persuaded that many
cases of Dyspepsia are produced by
the use of tobacco. | have prescribed
for such cases frequently, and find
improvement only when the tobacco
is discontinued. F"
Fl have treated a multitude of
cases of disease of the heart and
stomach where / had the best of rea-
son to suppose that tobacco was the
mai cause of the trouble, all bad eff
fects disappearing when it's use was
discontinued. Dyspepsia in young
men is caused in many instances and
greatly aggravated in many more SIM
ply by smoking to excess"
II feel certain that abuse of tobac-
co, however employed, may be classed
among the causes Of chronic disease,
e. g., severe forms of irritable Dys-
pepsia, disturbed action of the heart
and the like. Young gentlemen who
are in the habit of putting this enemy
into their mouths, do not become
aware of the danger sometimes until
too late"
ITO BE CONTINUED.