The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-06-29
SHOULD WI TAKE 4 s1Gox1f

SHOULD WI TAKE a s1GOx1r
Many Phyxic1ans Assert II II DsnsA-'
cial to Most People.
Il thoroughly agree with DR.. Nal
passe Of Paris" said a well-known
American physician recently. II think
good cigar after meal il. OF I'M
doubted help. OF course growing chill
dren should not smoke; their growth
will be stunted and their mental devel-
opment hindered by the habit, but few
grown persons experience any harm
from tobacco that IL, IL they do not
come slaves to the habit.
Il smoke quite number Of cigars
every day. But to maintain control Of
will over my desire once a week I stop
smoking every night at 8 o'clock and
fast from the weed until 9 O'Clock the
following evening.
Thus show that am a master Of
my appetite and as long as a man has
mental control he cannot be harmed.
The same thing ID true Of certain
kinds Of food. Partaks judiciously and
you will feel grateful satisfaction,
but give way entirely and eat whatever
you want and all you want and you GER
tainly will suffer-"
DR.. Nalpasse made specific study
OF tobacco and its effects. What 10
most remarkable, perhaps, is that he
found that the smoking of cigar In
many cases cured otherwise incurable
cases of dyspepsia.
Most persons, according to the Pari-
sian savant, experience bad results be-
cause they do not know how to smoke.
Suppose you were smoking deli
cious Havana; that you should lay it
aside minute and the fire should be-
come extinguished. You will no doubt
pick it up, and relight 1t, ignorant Of
the fact that as soon as you took pun
all the harmful nicotine In the stump
would enter your lungs
If cigar is particularly good you
would possibly smoke 1t down to the
wet butt and you'd chew the butt in
the bargain. How often have you seen
men do that?
DR.. Nalpasse said a cigar should be
thrown away when three quarters
smoked. A man should smoke only
three or four cigars a day. A pipe
which has become discolored, he de-
clared, is filed with nicotine and I'M
fit to be put into the mouth. A person
should not smoke on an empty stom-
ach.
Nicotine, according to the French
physician, does not volatile until it at
tains $50 degrees, so as the cigar burns
down to the end the poison Is likely to
be drawn into the lungs. In this re-
spect, he says, the Japanese take all
precautions.
To those who can use tobacco and
use it moderately, says DR.. Nalpasse,
it Is pleasant and harmless; but 1t
should not be used, he says, by persons
suffering from lung disease or who
have heart trouble. To persons afiict-
ed with nervous disorder 1t might Be
injurious.
I'm some cases." writes the phyd-
clan, tobacco aids digestion by excit-
ing the salivary secretion and produc-
ing greater activity on the part Of the
gastric organs"
He cited the case of q woman who
suffered from hysteria and extreme
nausea. She failed to keep any food on
her stomach. DR.. Dujardine Baumetx
advised her to smoke cigar after each
meal. To her delight she found that
the nausea passed away. When she
failed to smoke the malady returned
and she suffered extreme discomfort,
In cases Of partial drowning and as
phyxiation, according to Chartered,
smoking has had q reviving effect.
DR.. Nalpasse advises no one to smoke
In a sleeping room. Nor would he adj
wise those who have not formed tho
habit to take 1t up on the strength Of
his article Philadelphia North Ameri-
can.