Produced by David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Kentuckiana Digital Library) A DISSERTATION ON THE MEDICAL PROPERTIES AND INJURIOUS EFFECTS OF TOBACCO. BY A. McALLISTER, M. D. Improved and enlarged, with an Introductory Preface, BY MOSES STUART, _Asso. Prof. of Sac. Lit. in Andover Inst._ * * * * * A DISSERTATION ON THE MEDICAL PROPERTIES AND INJURIOUS EFFECT OF THE HABITUAL USE OF TOBACCO: READ, ACCORDING TO APPOINTMENT, BEFORE THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE COUNTY OF ONEIDA, AT THEIR SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING, JANUARY 5, 1830. BY A. McALLISTER, M. D. Second Edition. Improved and enlarged, with an Introductory Preface, BY MOSES STUART, _Associate Professor of Sac. Lit. in the Theol. Inst. at Andover._ BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY PEIRCE & PARKER, No. 9. Cornhill. NEW YORK:--H. C. SLEIGHT, Clinton Hall. 1832. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1832, by PEIRCE & PARKER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. PRESS OF PEIRCE & PARKER. No. 9, Cornhill. INTRODUCTION. The first edition of Dr. McAllister's Essay, was printed without any Appendix. Having myself been in the habit of using tobacco very moderately (usually but once in a day) from early life, I read the Essay as first printed with great interest. It appeared to me a sober, judicious, rational appeal to the understanding and judgment of the public, with respect to the subject of which it treats. A highly respected friend of mine desired me to give him my opinion of the Essay in writing. I consented to do this; and when I had done it, he judged it expedient to publish that opinion; to which I gave my consent. It was published in the _Journal of Humanity_; and for substance it was made up of an abridgement of Dr. McAllister's views, and some strictures on his style and method of treating the subject. In particular, a desire was expressed that Dr. McA. would discuss more fully some of the arguments employed in defence of using tobacco. This critique was sent to the author of the Essay; who in consequence of it expressed a willingness to revise his work, and make such additions as had been suggested. Some weeks since he transmitted to me a copy of the original edition, with a manuscript containing the Appendix to the present edition. At the same time he requested me to make any alterations in either part, which I might deem expedient. I have used this liberty so far as to change a few _technical_ words for popular and intelligible ones. In some of these cases, I have detracted from the _specific_ accuracy of the writer, as a medical man, for the sake of making his expressions more intelligible to the mass of readers. What he will thus lose, in his reputation for scientifical accuracy, he will gain by becoming more useful. A few other