Lectures on man: being a series of discourses on phrenology and physiology / Delivered by Professor L.N. Fowler in Great Britain.
- Lorenzo N. Fowler
- Date:
- 1886
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Lectures on man: being a series of discourses on phrenology and physiology / Delivered by Professor L.N. Fowler in Great Britain. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![comforts of the family. A man left off smoking and put into the bank what two or three cigars a day would cost. At the end of twenty-five years he had over five hundred pounds. Many persons think that they cannot afford to buy a library, and yet they smoke the price of one away every year. They cannot afford to buy a news- paper, and yet they will spend eight or ten pounds every year for tobacco. When young men learn to live they will be able to buy books and get an education out of their savings. Few persons are aware how much they spend on foolish and idle habits, and are constantly grumbling because they earn so little wages and have so many expenses. The Dean of Carlisle collected the following suggestive statistics : —In 1856, 33,000,000 pounds of tobacco were consumed in England, at an expense of £8,000,000; that £5,220,000 went to the Govern- ment as duty. In 1821 the average was 1170 ounces per head every year. In 1851 the average was 16*36 ; in 1853 it was 19 ounces—an increase of one fourth in 10 years. There are 12 city brokers in London devoted to the sale of tobacco ; 82 clay pipe makers ; 7,380 workmen engaged in the different parts of the business; and 252,048 tobacco- shops in the United Kingdom. It has been calculated that the entire world of snuffers, smokers, and chewers consume 2,000,000 tons of tobacco annually, or 4,480,000,000 pounds weight, as much in tonnage as the CO n consumed by 10,000,000 Englishmen, and at a cost suffi- cient to ] ay for all the bread-corn eaten in Great Britain. At least one-fourth of the race are smokers, or 100,000,000. Every working- man that consumes only an ounce per week, or four pounds per annum, pays to Government, as a tax on this useless habit, twelve shillings and eightpence. If my master gets to heaven, and smokes, I think I can, said a little boy who came into my room with a cigar in his mouth. A father, who smoked, told me that he had often beaten his two boys to make them stop smoking. I replied, Example is better than flogging. Throw away your own cigars if you would influence your boys. For the benefit of those who would like to reform, I will give the following receipt for getting rid of the desire for smoking:—Go without eating for a day. Two or three days would be better. Drink freely of water, and nothing else. After the system has become renovated by the water, take a wet shee-' pack, and let the tobacco escape through the pores of the skin. The sheet will soon become impregnated with the smell of the tobacco that the man has taken into his system in the form of snuff, cigars, &c. The man will soon begin to acquire a distaste for the weed. He should be very careful of his diet, and eat only the most simple food necessary for his nourishment, as brown bread with baked apples, baked or roasted potatoes and fruits, without any stimulants. He will soon cure the craving, especially if he would fill his mouth with water, and throw it out again, as often as he had any hankering for the tobacco. He can, in this way, by perseverance, work a radical cure. In the battle of life some are cowards. Some go to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21053029_0357.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
