Lectures on man : being a series of discourses on phrenology and physiology / delivered by L.N. Fowler.

  • Lorenzo N. Fowler
Date:
1880
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    senses have become blunted, tobacco produces a peculiar exhilaration, a wonderful charm, a mysterious spell, a fascination which binds the organic sensibilities, the moral emotions and intellectual powers, in a servitude which in most cases terminates only at death. The prostrating effects of tobacco are similar to those from using alcohol. A person, at first, loathes the sight of tobacco, but after the first nausea has been overcome a habit is formed that is far more difficult to break than that of drinking alcohol. The nervous system is rendered very irritable, the muscular system is weakened, and a person will have a great weakness of the limbs that is very difficult to cure ; and sometimes delirium tremens, has beeu produced by tobacco. The brain is either in a state of exhilaration, or, when the reaction comes, is in a stupidly morbid condition, so that its power in either is abnormal. Hence the person can neither think, reason, nor case observe clearly with any precision for a length of time. He may be disturbed by dreams and phantoms at night, and by a great dulness during the day. Even if he uses the same quantity of tobacco every day, he will gradually but prematurely exnaust both brain and body. Eighty-seven different diseases result from the use of tobacco. They are as follows : insanity, loss of memory, hypochondriasis, a tendency to commit suicide, hysteria, apoplexy, vertigo, cephalalgia, congestion of the brain, palsy,neuralgia, nervous tremors, intoxication, cleliriurntremens, epilepsy, fainting fits, cramp, nightmare, chronic wakefulness, pains at the epigastrium, nervous weakness, inflamed eyes, spasms of the eyelids, cataract, amaurosis, impaired hearing, total deafness, earache, nasal polypus, inflamed nasal mucous membrane, coryza or chronic nasal catarrh, ozoema or ulcerated nostril, inflamed frontal sinus, discolor- ation of the teeth, caries of the teeth, inflamed mouth, guru-boils wasting of the gums, chronic tonsillitis, salivation, drivelling, deficient salivary secretion, impaired voice, inflamed throat, ulceration of the larynx, hemoptysis, stricture of the oesophagus, depraved appetite, anorexia, depraved thirst, bronchitis, pulmonary consumption, foulness of breath palpitation of the heart, great sinking at the heart, pyrexia or feverishness, deficient heat, dyspepsia, cardialgia. or heartburn, gas- tralgia, pyrosis, cramp of the stomach, nausea, vomiting, constipation hemorrhoids, neuralgia of the rectum, diarrhoea, fistula in ano, torpor o the liver, malignant disease of the liver, perverted sexuality, impo- tency, urinary derangements, acme, greenish hue of the s’kin, foetid perspiration, depraved blood, skin disease, ulcers, loss of flesh, obesity weakness, rheumatism, gout, and cancer. The above is an appalling list of diseases that result from the use of person0^WS1l?U (i ^ & ®u®c,en,t a,pument to convince every reflecting 5 thCre 18 safety.only m total abstinence from the use satisfied withw^f u + he ““ who uses tobacco is rarely satisnea with water to drink, but craves beer, ale, and alcohol In thi* S“aSl<1Zk!‘r.dS(are mad? b?the ““ of-rMar^haI?& CIS 0Ut °f,every hundred persons who use tobacco, drink alcoholic liquors, and hence the liabilities to disease are
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