Works on phrenology, physiology, and kindred subjects / by O.S. Fowler.

  • Orson S. Fowler
Date:
[1877?]
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Credit: Works on phrenology, physiology, and kindred subjects / by O.S. Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    26 consumption. diseases of the gums and mouth, and to ^^“^tfchronic throat must also be detrimental to t >e h t B y ^ caused, in great gen“Sl hea'th' CHAPTER VII. effects of tobacco continued. ‘ Tobacco, even when «ed in moderatioamaj cause dyspepsia, headache, » ^hia distance, without pam and horror V—Dr. Rush. . CONSUMPTION. In reference to the f ^C^'E it becomes ^ ^10^f°1f Jfsease, consumption ; a malady that has in causing that dreaatui > . . termed the American become so common in the United States^tobe tomea^ disease ; a malady “ ' country is becoming more and lh Tt fomSVa century this’ disease has increased in the United 'TP* LftCetrH“rand »rner of „„r wide country, have ^opta ; d that a! to the use of tobacco, I am well aware it will be objected that females who, in our country, seldom use the article, are yet very subject*to consumption. But the disease is hereditary in a large proportion of cases. In that case, the effect of unfriendly agents would be only the more rapidly to develope the disease. Ther being no public registry of births and deaths in most parts of the United States, it would be difficult to form an opinion as to whether males or females suffer most from this disease. But it cannot he doubted that tobacco has an influence in many cases, in causing and developing consumption. While the narcotic effect of the plant is exerted on the nervous system, we know that inflammation and ulceration of the throat is often found in cases of those who smoke freely. A short, hacking cough is also to be observed, attended sometimes with the bringing up dark, grumous blood. On the whole, no important part of the system is so liable to disease as that delicate structure, the lungs. I have known of some cases, and heard of numbers of others, in which tobacco^ has been at least a prominent cause in developing consumption. This has been proved true from the fact, that on discontinuing the use of the drug a g-eat