Thus an antidote is instantly transformed into fuel to feed |
| the unquenchable flame that is already devouring the human vitals. |
| |
| It is no use in telling you by this time that I talk not about tobacco |
| "like a book," but like one who has been tobacconized. For I have been |
| one of those unfortunate boys who never had an opportunity of learning |
| any thing except from that cross old pedagogue Experience, who |
| invariably compelled me to work out my own problems, often have I in |
| scalding tears of bitter regret. |
| |
| Tobacco like alcohol gives a temporary stimulus, and to slack off the |
| use of it, it will produce similar effects. |
| |
| Nicotina and Nicotianin are the proper fathers to the following |
| diseases,--Dispepsia, Water-brash, Cancer, Ramollissement, Impotence, |
| Fatuity, Caries, Consumption, Laryngitis, Cardialgia, Angina Pectoris, |
| Neuralgia, Paralysis, Amaurosis, Deafness, Liver Complaint, Apoplexy, |
| Insanity, Hippochondriasis, "Horrors," "Blues," and so on through the |
| greater part of the Nosological family.
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