p. 273 | Tobacco Disease

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 16, 1881

Tobacco Disease

TOBACCO DISEASE.—A WRITER in Boyce's Anvil testifies as follows respecting tobacco as a cause of disease: "For eleven years my right hand was sorely afflicted with a most loathsome disease. Its first appearance was shortly after my debut as a telegraph operator, and consisted of four or five very small, watery pimples. They increased in number, however, till they could hardly be counted, and each day became more and more troublesome. Instead of a thin, watery fluid, they began to exude thick, offensive matter, and the physicians called it an aggravated case of salt rheum. My hand and wrist became one mass of sores and scabs. I spent some $300 doctoring with physicians and patent medicines, yet nothing seemed to give much relief; but in three months after tobacco was stopped, the disease began to disappear, and to-day there is not a particle of it to be seen about me."