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TOBACCO SYMPTOMS

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Feb 3, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 5.

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TOBACCO SYMPTOMS.

DR. ALEXANDER contributes to the Phrenological Journal the following inventory of symptoms caused by this poisonous and deadly weed: "The derangements which the habitual use of tobacco produces in a more or less pronounced form, are as follows:—
"1. Headache over the eyes. 2. Nervous headache without sickness. 3. Nervous headache with sickness of the stomach. 4. Deafness. 5. Partial blindness or amaurosis. 6. Running at the eyes. 7. Cancer of the lips. 8. Consumption, preceded for years by a cough. 9. Asthma. 10. Dyspepsia. 11. Palpitation of the heart. 12. Paralysis of the upper part of the body. 13. Neuralgia, especially of the head, face, and neck. 14. Swelling of the gums, and rotting of the teeth. 15. Enfeeblement of the lymphatics. 16. Enlargement of the glands of the face and neck, making the chewer thick about the cheeks and lips. 17. Lethargy. 18. Morbid appetite for food, especially highly flavored food. 19. Indistinct taste. 20. Indistinct smell. 21. Obtuseness of the moral sense. 22. Imperfect sense of touch. 23. Uncleanliness of person. 24. Stertorous, or snoring, sleep. 25. A sense of deafness and of great debility on first waking from sleep, until one has had a chew or a smoke. 26. Confirmed and incurable disease, and premature death."—Our Rest.