UNDER this title Dr. B. H. Brodnax, of Brodnax, La., contributes an interesting article to the Virginia Medical Monthly, from which we make the following extracts:— Careful inquiry for over a year in my cliental gives me the following results: Ninety-eight out of 123 persons, all white, male and female, use tobacco in some way—aged 18 to 78. Of these I find 90 affected with impairment of the senses of taste, smell, and hearing; 82 have periodic headaches traceable to the habit, for when abandoned for a time, or using less quantity, this symptom disappears in greater or less degree; 5 have paralysis agitans more or less severe; and 50 per cent. have irregular heart action; 89 are more or less dyspeptic—22 of them badly so; 8 cannot always retain all the food eaten unless a stomachic is taken; 52, after smoking during the day, have, later on, a slight defect in walking, a vertigo, usually shown by an inclination to swerve to one side from a straight line—the irregularity always on the same side. More than half complain of forgetfulness, a slight decline in the former powers of memory—some even so far as to forget familiar names of persons whom they see every day. I said, “All this is traceable to the use of tobacco;” because, when abandoned for a time, these defects seem to remedy themselves without any medication, or only very slight. Among the women (a few—four—of whom smoke), most of them use snuff sticks (toothbrush), dyspepsia, querulousness, constipation, and consequent uterine troubles, are most common complaints, coupled with some of the others mentioned. Some have “palpitation of the heart,” which ceases with abstinence and a placebo. In about 80 per cent. the eyes are affected with a dryness of the upper lid, which seems to stick to the ball of the eye. There are no granulations, only a dryness of the lids in the morning on waking. This seems to be a fault in the secretion of the mucous membrane. Usually one eye, seldom both, is affected. I call it “smoker’s sore eyes.”—Doctor’s Weekly.