The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-05-27
NARCOTICS.
The Opium Habit, Hasheesh, the
Pipe and the Chew.
A Sermon by Rev. Dr. Talmage on the
Deleterious and Deplorable Effects
OF the Induigenc, ~oDanco
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THE subject Of a recent sermon by Rev.
7. De Witt Talmage was: "Does the use
Of tobacco cause cancerous and other
troubles?" The text was from Genesis l.,
IL: "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 hun
ger, for narcotic in case Of insomnia, for
anodyne under paroxysm of pain, or for
stimulus when the pulses flag under the
weight of disease. The caterer takes the
herb and serves 1t up in all delicacies. The
physician takes the herb and compounds
1t for physical recuperation. Millions Of
the human race take 1t for ruinous delecta-
tion of body and mind. The herb, divinely
created and for good purposes, in cases
without number Is prostituted for evil re-
suits. There is a lawful and unlawful use
OF the herbaceous kingdom.
POISON.
You say: "Didn't God make tobacco?"
Oh, yes. You say: "Isn't God goodW
Oh, yes. You say: "Then God, when He
created tobacco, must have created 1t for
some good purpose" Oh, yes; it is good
for great many things-tobacco is. 1t is
good to kill moths in the wardrobe and
tick in sheep, and to strangulate all kinds
Of vermin, Oand to fumigate pestiferous
places, and. like all other poisons, God
created 1t for some particular use. So He
did henbane, so nux vomica, 80 copperas,
so belladonna, so all those poisons which
He directly created or had man 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
"don't people use it without seeming harm
to themselves, and are there not cases OF
plethora which absolutely need this deple-
tionW Oh, yes. Skillful and prudent ply
sicians have sometimes prescribed it, just
as they sometimes prescribe arsenic, and
they prescribe it well. There can be nc
doubt about its being poisonous. There
was a case reported in which little child
lay upon its 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 az,
who indulge in this habitp Yes; so
have seen an inebriate seventy years old
There are some persons who in spite Of al
the outrages to their physical system live
on TO old age. In the case Of the man o.
the jug he lasted so long because he wai
picked. In the case Of the man of tn,
pipe he lasted SO long because he wal
turned into smoked liver.
But, my friends, what advice had WI
better give to our young people? I say ii
the first place, let us advise them to alb
stain from this habit, because all the medi
cal fraternity Of the United States anC
Great Britain pronounce IL the cause o
widespread and terrific unhealth. DR.
Agnew, DIR. Hamilton, DR.. Olcott, DR.
Barnes, DR.. Woodward, DIR. Rush, DR.
Hosack, DR.. Harvey, DR.. Mott-all tn
medical fraternity, allopathic, homeo
the habit, and warn the community
against it. One distinguished physician
says: "This habit is the cause Of seventy
different styles of disease. This habit 4
the cause Of nearly all the cases Of cance
Of the mouth" What Is the testimony o
the late DIR. 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 pa
tients who came to me with cancer of th
tongue and lips whether they used to
.bacco; II so, whether they chewed o
smoked, and IL they have sometime
answered in the negative as TO the frs
question l can truly say that to the best o
my knowledge and belief such cases ar
exceptions TO the general rule. When, q
is usually the case, one side OF the tongu
is affected with liberated cancer, IL arise
from the babitual retention of the Tobacco
in contact with this part" Their unite,
testimony is that IL depresses the vitals o
the system and brings on nervousness an,
dyspepsia and takes of twenty five pc
cent. of the physical vigor of the people o
this country, and damaging this genera
tion damages the next, the accumulated
curse going on to capture other centuries
1t Injuries the mind. Another eminen
physician, for a long time Superintendent
Of the insane asylum at Northampton
Mass, says: "E ,uy half OF the patient
who have come to our asylum for treat
ment are the victims Of tobacco" II Is
bad thing, my brother, to damage th
body; II is worse thing to damage th
mind, and any man Of common sens
knows that the nervous system immedi
ately acts upon the brain. More than that
Nearly all reformers will tell you that
tends TO drunkenness. II creates unnat
ural thirst. There are those who use thi
nlrcotio who do not drink, but nearly al
who drink use the narcotic, so that show
there is an Immediate affinity between tn
two drugs. twas long ago demonstrate,
that a man can not permanently reform
from strong drink unless he gives up to
bacco. In nearly ell the cases where mel
having been reformed have fallen bac
1t has been shown they have first touche,
tobacco and then surrendered to intox
icants. lttfffs tf.H
One reason why there are 30 many vic
tins of this habit is because there are o
many ministers Of religion who smoke an,