A paper--of tobacco; treating of the rise, progress, pleasures, and advantages of smoking. With anecdotes of distinguished smokers, mems. on pipes and tobacco-boxes, and a tritical essay on snuff / By Joseph Fume [i.e. W.A. Chatto] [pseud.].
- William Andrew Chatto
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A paper--of tobacco; treating of the rise, progress, pleasures, and advantages of smoking. With anecdotes of distinguished smokers, mems. on pipes and tobacco-boxes, and a tritical essay on snuff / By Joseph Fume [i.e. W.A. Chatto] [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![16] smoked, during the hours of fasting in the time of Lent.”* As every pope since the time of Clement XI. has been a snuff-taker, Mons. Hecquet’s opinions have not hitherto been formally sanctioned by a bull. One of the most singular instances of the evils consequent on snuff-taking is related by Olaus Bor- richius, a Danish physician. In a letter written to Thomas Bartholine, he mentions the case of a man whose brain, from his excessive indulgence in snuff, had become so dried up, that when his skull was opened after his decease, nothing w^as found in it but a small mass of shrivelled membranes. The proper substance of the brain had been drained off through the nostrils. Dr. John Hill, in his Cautions against Snuff, en- forces his arguments by numerous “ instances of persons who have perished miserably of diseases, occasioned, or rendered incurable, by its use.” The Doctor’s tract is more creditable to his imagination than his judgment. The majority of his “ cases ” are very questionable; but even admitting them all to have actually occurred, the relation between cause and effect is often exceedingly obscure. If a lady’s- maid is seized with hysterics in consequence of plug- * Traite des Dispenses du Careme, part iii., chap. 18, cited by Chiazzari, who denies the conclusion of Hecquet, and asserts that odours and vapours are not aliments. M](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29299858_0191.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
