The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-05
Editor Palladium & Sun-Telegram

Editor Palladium & Sun-Telegram:
When touched, the tobacco worm
squirms frantically and emits a black
villianous excretion. although he is
armed with a wicked looking horn. his
neurons or nerve cells are so narcoti-
zed with his food that he has not the
sense to use it. This excretion is very
| poisonous, the growing tobacco plants
| must be wormed early and often; the
wormer usually wears heavy gloves
| for if he happenes TO have a slight
| abrasion on his hands blood poisoning
almost surely results.
Your correspondent hides his "quid'
behind the noble Y. NJ, C. A.-"The
devil is sick, the devil a saint would
| be-" &c.
Narcormania.
This most prevalent and popular
disease in the world today is known
| to modern medicine as an uncontrolled
| and uncomfortable use of habit-form-
| ing drugs. 1t is disease per Sc be-
| longing to that great and rapidly in
| creasing class of nervous and mental
diseases, the insanities, known to ply
sicians as neuropsycoses. Dorland' S
Medical Dictionary defines it as fol
| lows" (Gr stupor; madness) l. An
| insane desire for narcots. alcoholic
| insan nifty. Narcomaniac. One who is af-
fected with narcomania."
The great trinity of the plutonic
realm, the greater black plague. af.
flicting the world today is. alcoholic
| tObacco-opium; these are kindred mar
cotics, especially tobacco and alcohol
they go hand in hand. boon compan-
ions in the devils service. In a series
of observations extending over So
years, the writer has met or known
of but three persons afflicted with al
coholic narcomnia who were not in
veterate users of tobacco OF course
there are a good many persons who
use tobacco that do not use alcoholics
and some who use alcoholics that dc
not use tobacco, but the world over
there is an exceedingly small percen
tage who use tobacco that do not use
some or all forms of alcoholisc also.
The History Of Tobacco.
| SpCdhIuS, toudSCo 10 c
tramp, a harmeless weed, is a primate
native of no country on the globe Con
sequently, historians differ widely az
to its nativity, the genus nicotina to
baccum is today grown in nearly ev
cry country in the world. Some claim
America as it's native home; Hum
boldt in the 18th century found tobac
loo NV h@ 80
The early Spanish explorers found i
also cultivated plant in the island!
lof the Caribbean ocean. A Spanish
grandee introduced in Spain. The gen
eric name nicotina is after Jean Nico
who as French ambassador to Portu
gal in 1860 introduced tobacco il
France. 1t soon became popular as /;
valuable medicinal plant, but was la
ter condemned by the best medical au
thorities as very dangerous, unheal
thy drug. Notwithstanding the doc
tors condemned it as a virulent poison
it's popularity spread rapidly over Eu
rope as a luxury. The early and spar
sely settled American colonies foun,
such ready market in Europe, tina
stringent laws had to be enacted lin
iting the amount raised, as the Ian,
was threatened with a famine TIL
priesthood of Europe condemned it
use in severe terms, excommunicatiol
was the penalty for using it in church
In Russia the penalty for using it wa
cutting off the nose. In England Kim
James l, of Bible revision fame, levie
a tax which had been 2 penny, of
shillings 2 penny a pound; in doing S
he proclaimed, smoking is loathsom