This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... heard of the eagerness of all savage and bar barous people for exciting or stimulating drinks? Yet these same people, almost to an individual, are equally fond of tobacco in all its varied forms. Tobacco, moreover, is, of itself, an intoxicating substance. Messrs. Arms and Coan, American missionaries ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... heard of the eagerness of all savage and bar barous people for exciting or stimulating drinks? Yet these same people, almost to an individual, are equally fond of tobacco in all its varied forms. Tobacco, moreover, is, of itself, an intoxicating substance. Messrs. Arms and Coan, American missionaries to Patagonia, testify of the savages there, that they are not only excessively fond of tobacco, but that they will even get intoxicated by mere smoking. I know the attempt is often made to show that narcotic substances, such as opium, tobacco, coffee, &c, though exciting or exhilarating, are not really intoxicating. But the distinction which is thus attempted is almost without a difference, and is usually spoken of by those persons to whom it would be quite convenient to have a distinction shown, which, after all, it is more easy to assert than to prove. X--LEADS TO VARIOUS DISEASES. But, tobacco not only leads to intemperance--of itself a disease--it "both originates and aggravates a great many more of the complaints to which flesh in its fallen estate is heir. This it will now be my object to show. That tobacco is not only an irritant but a poison--a most virulent one, too--cannot be doubted. The authorities on this subject are exceedingly numerous, and highly respectable. Among foreign chemists, physicians, and other scientific men, whose experiments and statements go to establish the poisonous character of tobacco, are the highly respected names of Conwell, Vanquelin, Brodie, Berzelius, Hermstadt, Posselt, Reimann, Fontana, Albinus, Henry, Hooper, Boutron, Rees, Buchner and Wilson. Among our own countrymen, are Franklin, Rush, Silliman, Wood, Bache, Bell, Condie, Mussey, Graham, McAllister, Waterhouse, Woodward, Eberle and Ives. I shall...
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