The Nevada picayune., 1885-06-04

prescribed it, just as they some. times prescribe arsenic, and they prescribe it we'll. There can be no doubt about it being poisonous. There was a case reported in which a little child lay upon its mothers lap, and a drop from her pipe fell on the child's lip and 1t went into convulsions and into death. "But,' you say, "don't people live to an old age who indulge in this habitV' Yes; I have seen an inebriate 70 years old, There are some per- sons, who, in spite of all the out rages to their physical system, live on to old age. In the case of the man ofthejug, he lasted so long bee ause he was pickled! In the case of the man of the pipe, he lasted so long because he was turned into smoked liver!
 But, my friends, what advice had we better give 10 our young people? Say in the first place let us advise them to abstain from this habit because all the medical fra ternity of the United States and Great Eritian pronounce it the the cause of widespread and ter rife unhealth. Dr. Agnew, Dr. Hamilton, Dr. Olsot, pr. Barnes, Dr. Woodward, Dr. Rush, Dr. Hosack, Dr, Harvey, Dr, Mott all the medical fraternity, home opathic, allopathic, hydropathic, eclectic-denounce the habit and warn the community against. One distinguished physician says: "This habit is the cause of seventy diff ferent styles of disease; this habit is the cause of nearly all the cases of cancer of the mouth." What is testimony of the late Dr. c. War ren, of Bo ston, than whom there is no higher authority' He says: "For more than thirty years l have been in the habit of inquiring of patients who came to me with can cer of the tongue and lips whether they used tobacco, and, if so' whether they chewed or smoked, and if they have sometimes an swered in the negative as to the first question, can truly say that to the best of my knowledge and belief, such cases are exceptions to the general rale. When, as is us- ually the case, one side of the tongue IS affected with Liberated cancer it arises from the habitual retension of the tobacco in con- tact with this part" Their united testimony is that 1t depresses the vitals of the system and brings on nervousness and dyspepsia and takes off 9 per cent of the physi- cal vigor of the people of this coun try, and damaging this generation, damaging the next, the accumula- ted curse going on to capture oth- CT centt1ses.
 It miures the mind. Another eminent physician, for a long while superintendent of the insane asy- lum at Northampton. Mass, says: "Fulls half the patients who have come to our asylum for treatment are victims of tobacco" It is a sad thing, my brother, to damage the body; it is worse thing to damage the age and mind, and any man of common sense knows that the nervous system immediately acts upon the brain. More than that, nearly all reformers will tell you that it tends to drunkenness; it creates unnatural thirst. There are those who use this narcotic who do not drink, but nearly all who drink use the narcotic; so that shows there is an immediate af- finity between the two drugs. It was long ago demonstrated that a man cannot permanently reform from strong drink unless he gives up tobacco. In nearly all the cases where men, having been reformed, nave fallen back, it has been shown they have first touched to- bacco. and then surrendered to in- toxicants. The broad avenue leading down to the drdnkard's grave and the drunkard's hell is strewn thick with tobacco leaves. What did Benjamin Franklin say? "I never saw a we'll man in the ex- ercise of common sense who would say that tobacco did him any coodD What did Thomas Jetfer-