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| Now this is mean. There should be honor among thieves. Don't laugh at |
| and taunt your brother, wallowing there in the mud, while your own |
| mouth is full of a thousand times filthier filth. Don't grow poetical |
| on the "drunkard's aspen hand," when your own poisoned nerves will |
| quiver worse than his if you should abstain from your quid three |
| hours. You have yet to learn that tobacco produces delirium tremens, |
| which you so much love to picture to the drunkard, with all the |
| glowing colors of pandemonium. |
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| Dr. Mussey says he was acquainted with a gentleman in Vermont who |
| conscientiously abstained from all intoxicating drinks and yet died of |
| delirium tremens. Dr. Lauren and many other medical writers speak of |
| similar cases within their knowledge. Many of our best physicians |
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| concur the opinion in that many of the cases of delirium tremens |
| imputed to alcohol are mostly due to the use of tobacco.
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