Tobacco : its history, nature, and effects on the body and mind : with the opinions of Rev. Dr. Nott, L.N. Fowler, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Hon. Horace Greeley, Dr. Jennings, O.S. Fowler, Dr. R.T. Trowler, and others / by Joel Shew.

  • Joel Shew
Date:
1851
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Credit: Tobacco : its history, nature, and effects on the body and mind : with the opinions of Rev. Dr. Nott, L.N. Fowler, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Hon. Horace Greeley, Dr. Jennings, O.S. Fowler, Dr. R.T. Trowler, and others / by Joel Shew. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ounces of a thick brownish pulp, in which were seen several pellets of a powder resembling snuff. In these contents, Dr. Ogston could detect no opium, only to- bacco. No doubt could exist that the man died of poi- soning with tobacco ; but as no evidence could be ob- tained to inculpate any one in particular of many indi- vidual's who were in the brothel with him, the case was not made the subject of trial. The fumes of tobacco, as taken into the system by smoking, have been known to cause death. Not long since, in Salem, Massachusetts, the death of a lad named James Barry, aged twelve years, was said in the papers to have been caused by excessive smoking of cigars. Gruelin,*a German medical author, states two instances of death from smoking, one person having accomplished seventeen pipes, the other nineteen at a sitting. Dr. Clay, of England, says another German author states, that one half the deaths occurring in that country be- tween the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, is attribu- table to smoking and chewing. To one who has trav- eled in that country, and witnessed the almost incredi- ble amount of smoking that is every where practiced, this assertion would not appear so incredible. There is an interesting account of the effects of the fumes of tobacco in a particular case quoted by Dr. Clay, of Manchester, England. He says, It occurred to Mr. Howison, on a voyage. When the evening was pretty far advanced, the master of the schooner con- ducted him to the cabin, which was almost full of large packages, and pointing out where he was to sleep left him alone. He felt a heavy suffocation, but did not ex- amine the contents of the bales, and went immediately to bed. Soon afterward he was harassed by wild and
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