| nicotianin on the tongue of a Cat or a Dog, that you don't wish to | | kill by the tedious method or shooting or drowning, and see what the | | effect will be. See if Strychnine will do its work so quick. | | | | Doctors: men whose profession is to play with poisons as with so many | | deadly vipers, stand back and behold its poisoned fangs with horrow, | | not daring to lay hold on it and use it as a medicine for his sick | | wife or child. No he shuns it with a deathly horrow! Though himself | | may be a SLAVE to the slower action of its devitalizing powers on mind | | and body. | | | | An over dose of tobacco is incureable because of its peculiar effect | | upon the system. The effect is known by a deathly paleness and | | sickness, then the air suddenly becomes too warm and oppressive, the | | patient desires a cool situation, a drink of cold water and a fresh | | breeze, the strangest of all is at the same time the patient is so | | stimulated the action of the heart decreases, and to give a stimulant | | to increase it, it increases its virulence in proportion to the | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 5 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | increase of the suffocating and sickening sensation: and to give the | | medicine to allay that, still decreases the motion of the heart's | | action. Thus an antidote is instantly transformed into fuel to feed | | the unquenchable flame that is already devouring the human vitals. | | | | It is no use in telling you by this time that I talk not about tobacco | | "like a book," but like one who has been tobacconized. For I have been | | one of those unfortunate boys who never had an opportunity of learning | | any thing except from that cross old pedagogue Experience, who | | invariably compelled me to work out my own problems, often have I in | | scalding tears of bitter regret. | | | | Tobacco like alcohol gives a temporary stimulus, and to slack off the | | use of it, it will produce similar effects. | | | | Nicotina and Nicotianin are the proper fathers to the following | | diseases,--Dispepsia, Water-brash, Cancer, Ramollissement, Impotence, |