a slight sign of assent or dissent to a question. The doctors were fully agreed that tobacco was the sole cause of the stroke.
"It is my business to point out to you all the various and insidious causes of general paralysis, and smoking is one of them. I know of no single vice which does so much harm as smoking. It is a snare and a delusion. It soothes the excited nervous system at the time, to render it more irritable and more feeble ultimately." —Mr. Solly, Surgeon of St. Thomas Hospital.
2. Dizziness of the head, caused by irregular supply of arterial blood in the brain, is a common result of the free use of tobacco.
3. Amaurosis is also frequently induced by the use of tobacco. It is commonly confined to one eye. It is generally curable, but not always, by giving up the habit. J. W., a coach-builder, upwards of fifty years of age, had smoked for thirty years, generally two ounces of tobacco a week, when he became so blind as to be unable to work, or even walk through a crowded street. He applied to an eye dispensary, where the medical man, who is considered a good oculist, told him that he labored under amaurosis, and prescribed accordingly. After following his treatment for some time, and finding himself no better, he visited a neighboring city, and consulted another oculist, who instantly detected tobacco to be the cause of his blindness, as if the obnoxious stench of the weed had led him at once to this conclusion. J. W. instantly threw away tobacco forever, visited a relative in the Highlands, where, in a short time, his vision gradually returned, became clear, and enabled him to return to his business quite cured. A skillful English physician states that out of thirty-seven patients suffering from loss of sight by paralysis of the optic nerve, twenty-three were inveterate smokers. —Rev. A. Sims.