The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-24
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FRIDAY, JULY "a, 1886.
THE EFFECTS OF TOBACCO.

The following extracts from "a
Resume of the Tobacco Question:"
in the Medical and Surgical Re-
porter, are worthy of attention.
After one of the protracted dis
cussions in England on the tobacco
question, DIR. Richardson published,
in 1862, series of papers, which
were summarized by the Lancet,
1868, p. GIG, as follows:-
1. The more common effects are
due to carbonic acid and ammonia.
2. The effects are but transitory.
3. All of the resulting evils are
functional.
4. Produces disturbances in sto-
mach, blood, heart, organs of sense,
in brain, sympathetic system, and
mucous membrane of mouth and
bronchi.
5. AS cause of insanity, chorea,
epilepsy, apoplexy, organic disease
of heart, cancer and consumption
there is not sufficient evidence.
6. 1t is deleterious to the young.
z. In the main it is luxury that
any nation is better without, and to
the mind conveys the idea of physi-
cal detriment.
8. AS luxury tending to this
condition, it is one of the least harm
full; is innocuous compared with
alcohol, is not more harmful than
tea, less so than sugar, and is anti
dotal to gluttony.
8. 1t is remedy in certain cases
for evils that lie deeper than its own.
Smoking, when done at proper
time, facilitates digestion. The
sense of relief obtained by cigar
after heavy meal, is we'll known to
smokers. Dyspepsia sometimes fol-
lows the discontinuance of tobacco,
and is removed when the habit is
resumed.
While the abuse of tobacco wea-
kens the system and leads to ema-
citation, used intelligently it exerts a
favorable influence upon nutrition.
Hammond, by observation upon
himself, found gain in weight with
the use of tobacco. tobacco, when
the food is sufficient to preserve the
weight, increases it; when INSULT
Gent, and the body is losing, to-
bacco restraints the loss. Ham.
mond.
B9rhaave, of Holland, over zoe
years ago referred to tobacco as
being an antidote to hunger. II
seems that the power to undergo
severe exertion and fatigue, either
mental or physical, is aided by to-
bacco.
Situations of loneliness are always
rendered more tolerable by tobacco
and it is the constant companion Of
those who lead lives of solitude such
as that of the herdsman or ranch.
man. A feeling of unrest or dis
content, made up of ill-defined long
ings, of imaginary disappointment
and unpleasant anticipations, com
monty known as ennui, is response.
be for much unhappiness. This un
fortunate condition of mind is re-
moved by the soothing influence of {
cigar, and the moroseness and gloon
are quickly dispelled. AS much Of
every day is filled up with care, oul
degree of comfort in this life viii
depend largely upon our ability te
bear it uncomplainingly. That to-
bacco assists us to do this, that il
enables us to look upon life moro
complacently; must be the conclu
sion of every one who has expert
enced its influence. That it enable.
us to toll with less fatigue is equally
true. The readiest writer's generally
use tobacco, and cannot accomplish
the same amount of work in thu
same time without it, and those con
nected with newspaper and othe
literary work who have often Il
write against time find it of inesti
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