Tobacco : its history, nature, and effects on the body and mind ... / By Joel Shew.

  • Joel Shew
Date:
1850
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Credit: Tobacco : its history, nature, and effects on the body and mind ... / By Joel Shew. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    recollection of a vast variety of ideas and events which appeared to have passed through his mind, and occupied him during the time of his supposed insensibility. All this singular derangement had arisen from a copious in- halation of the fumes of tobacco ; for, on examining the cabin, he found that the piles of packages consisted of that narcotic plant, and that quantities of it even lay un- der his bed; in short, that the vessel contained nothing else.” Iam no friend to the barbarous and indiscriminate experimenting on animals which some anatomists and physiologists of modern times are so fond of. Whena valuable principle of science is to be elicited, something that promises to be a means of ameliorating the condi- tion of man, such experiments are legitimate and allow- able, but not otherwise. Long since, lamentable expe- rience had too often proved the poisonous character of tobacco, so that experiments on that point were not needed. Yet they have been made over and over again, with no other object than to gain notoriety in things which are extremely revolting to every humane, sensi- tive mind. Let, therefore, no more experiments be made on either man or animals, to prove the highly poisonous and destructive character of tobacco. If one should rise from the dead, the evidence could not be made more clear and positive than it now is.
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