Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-18
CANCERS FROM TOBACCO.
DIR. TALMAGE breaches ON A
MUCH-MOOTEDS SUBJECT.


killing Undesirable Bugs and Vermir
Its Evn Effects on People Addicted
10 Its Use.
BROOKLYN, May 17.-Before the ser
mon in the Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day,
DR.. Talmace read from the First Book OF
Kings concerning an altar upon which
mems bones were sacrificed, ana re-
marked that there is more sacrlhce Of
human life now than ever before, although
the altar may not be admitted. DR.. TAI
mage,s reading of the Scripture lesson is
macmillan to himself, and eXcites as much
interest in the audience as the sermon
preached The reading is running CON-
mentary with practical lessons inter-
jected.
The subject of the sermon was, 'Does
4beuse of tobacco cause cancer0us and
other troublesw The text was from Gen.
esis j.. II: ''Let the earth bring forth grass
and herb yielding seed" DR.. Talmage
said:
The first born of earth were the grass
blade and the herb. They preceded the
brute creation and the human family-the
grass for animal life, the herb for human
service. The cattle took possession OF Its
inheritance, the grass blade; and man
took possession of his Inheritance, the
herb. This herb we have for food in case
of hunger, for narcotic in case of in
sOmnia for anOdVne under parOXysm OF
pain. or for stimulus when the pulses flag
under the weight of disease. The caterer
takes the herb and serves it up in al
delicacies. The physician takes the herb
and compounds it for physical recupera-
lion. Millions of the human race take 1t
for ruipous delectatiOn of body and mind.
The herb, dvinely created and for good
purposes, in cases without number prostl-
tuted for evil results. There is lawful
and unlawful use of the herbaceous
kingdom.
There sprang up in Yucatan on this
continent an herb which has bewitched
the world. 1t crossed the Atlantic Ocean
in the fifteenth century and captured
Spain. Then it captured Portugal, and
then the French Ambassadors took it to
Paris and il captured the French empire.
Then Walter Raleigh introduced ii into
England. The botanists ascribe it to the
genus Njc0tidRG; but YOU all know 1t rs
the inspiring, the eleyating, the empara-
dising, the radlating, the nerve-shatteT-
ing, the dyspepsia-breeding, the health
DESTROYING tobacco. l shall not be
Extensively personal while | speak on this
subject. because YOU all use 1t. or nearly
all. Indeed, / know from personal eXpe-
rience how it sOOthes and rOseates the
world and kindles sociality. and | know
what are its baleiul results. | know
what it is TO be its slave, and, thank God.
| know what it is to be its conQueroT. /
have no expectation that l will persuade
the great masses of you to change your
habits upon this subject, but ! thought |
might help YOU in some advice to your
children
You say: "Didn't God make tobaccor
Oh, yes. You say: ''lsn't God goOdT
Oh, yes. You say: "Then God, when He
created tobacco, must have created it for
some good purpose" Oh, yes; it is good
for a great many things-tobaccOi is. tits
good TO kill moths in the wardrobe and
tick in sheep, and TO strangulateall kinds
Of Vermin. and to fumigate pestiferOus
places. and, like all other pOisOns, God
created il fO- some particular use. So he
did henbane, so nuX vomica, so cOpperas,
SO belladOnna, so all those poisons which
he directly created or had man to extract.
But the same God who made the poisons
also created us with common sense to
know how to use them and how not TO use
them. "Oh." say some of my friends,
edOn't people use il without seeming
harm TO themselves, aud are there not
cases of plethora which absolutely need
this depletiOnY' Oh, yes. Skillful and
prudent physicians have some
times prescribed it just as they
sometimes prescribe arsenic, and they
prescribe it well. There can be no doubt
about It's being poisonous. There was a
case reported in which a little child lay
upon It's mothers lap and drop from her
pipe fell on the child's lip and it went into
commissions and into death. "But," you
say. ''dOn't people live on to old age who
indulge in this habitY Yes: so | have
seen an inebriate 10 years old. There are
some persons who, in spite Of all the out
RACES to their physical system, live on to
old age. In the case of the man Of the jug,
he lasted so long becase he was picked!
In the case Of the man of the pipe, he last
ed so long because he was turned into
smoked liverl
But. my friends, what advice had we
better give to our young people? say
in the first place let us advise them to
abstain from this habit, because all the
medical fraternity OF the United States
and Great Britain pronounce IL the cause
of widespread and terrific unhealth. DR..
Agnew, DR.. Hamilton, Dr.. OlcOtt, DR..
Barnes, DR.. Woodward, DR.. Rush, DR..
Hosack, Or. Harvey, DR.. MOtt-all the
medical fraternity, homeopathic, allo-
pathic, hydrOpathic, eclectic-denounce
the maitland warn the community against
il. One distinguished physician says:
s'IhiS habit is the cause Of seventy differ
ent styles Of disease. This habit is the
cause of nearly all the cases of cancer Of
the mouth" What is the testimony of
the late DR.. John G. Warren, of Boston,
than whom there is no higher authority {?
He says: "FOr more than thirty
years / have been in the habit of
inQuiring Of patients who come to me
with cancer Of the tongue and lips
whether they used tobacco, and, If so,
whether they chewed or smoked; and if
they have sometimes answered in the
negative as 10 the first question, | can
truly say that N the best of my know
ledge and bel ef such cases are exceptions
to the General rule. When, as is usually
Che case, one side Of the tongue is affected
with liberated cancer 1t arises from the
habitual retention Of the tobacco in con.
tact with this part" Their united testi
mOny is that IL depresses the vitals Of the
system and brings on nervousness and
dyspepsia and takes of twenty-five per
cent. Of the physical ylgor of the people
OF this country; and damaging this gen.
GRAFTON damages the next. the accumu.
lated curse going on TO capture other cen.
turtles.
IL Injuries the mind. Another eminent
physician, for a long while Superintendent
or the Insane Asylum at Northampton
Mass, says: "Fully half OF the patients
who have come 20 our asylum Tor treat.
ment are the victims Of tobacco" II is a
sad thing, my brother 10 damage the