[16] Quoted from "Diseases of Modern Life," by B. W. Richardson, M.D. D. Appleton & Co., 1877, pp. 213 and 214. [17] "A Sober View of Temperance," by Rev. Daniel Merriam, Bibliotheca Sacra, Oct., 1831. [18] "Diseases of Modern Life," by B. W. Richardson, M.D. pp. 228 and 229. [19] The writer is here describing a personal experience. [20] "After a short time the products of tobacco find a ready exit out of the system. They are thrown out by the three great eliminatories--the lungs, the skin, and the kidneys. The volatile matters exhale by the lungs; * * * while both (nicotine and the bitter extracts), I believe, are carried off by the kidney, the grand eliminator of all poisons of the soluble type."--"Diseases of Modern Life," by B. W. Richardson, M.D., pp. 283 and 285. [21] Quoted by John Lizars--"The Use and Abuse of Tobacco," New York, 1880, p. 21.