A voice from Hawaii / by T.S. Southwick.

  • Southwick, T. S.
Date:
Between 1880 and 1889?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A voice from Hawaii / by T.S. Southwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Some persons seem to use Tobacco with impunity, the system throwing off the poisonous influence of the foreign element in it, in some strange way ; yet it is injurious in many ways to all who use Tobacco, for it interferes with the general circulation of the blood and affects every organ and fibre of the human frame. Some persons, in spite of violent outrages to their physical system, live to old age. Nicotine affects the weakest part of the body first, and whilst some may become blind, others would have tumors, cancers, etc., and others heart disease or defect of mental power, etc. Those who are not made sick at the first using—have very strong constitutions or have inherited a taste for it and are poisoned to begin with. So obnoxious is nicotine to man generally that it is said cannibals will not eat human flesh which contains the flavour of Tobacco. The turkey buzzards of Mexico refused the flesh of soldiers addicted to Tobacco. The New York Medical Journal says: “ In an experimental observation of thirty-eight boys of all classes of society, and of average health, who had been using Tobacco for periods ranging from two months to two years, twenty-seven showed severe injury to the constitution and insufficient growth ; thirty-two showed the existence of irregularity of the heart’s action, dis¬ ordered stomachs, coughs and craving for alcohol; thirteen had intermittency of the pulse and one had consumption. After they had abandoned the use of Tobacco, within six months one- lialf were free from all their former symptoms, and the remainder had recovered by the end of the year.” A College of Physicians has said that not less than 20,000 die annually in this land from nicotine poison. Rev. A. Sims says : “ Such is the rankness of the poison of Tobacco that even to sleep with an inveterate smoker is very dangerous.’’ He adds that the Rev. Geo. Trask is authority for a striking case in proof of this : “ The young wife of a great smoker grew pale, lost her appetite, became affected with palpitation of the heart, trembling of the limbs and a deatli-like sinking at the pit of the stomach ; her sleep was often interrupted with darting pains and frightful dreams ; she became nervous with symptoms of hysteria. At first her Physician was unable to account for this medley of distressing pains, but at length it occurred to him that they resembled the effects of Tobacco. He communicated his suspicions to her husband who immediately cast away the cigar, and had the satisfaction of seeing his wife recover in a short time without the use of medicine.” The foregoing statements suggest to us the thought of inheritance. The scriptural truth and prophecy “ that the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children to the third and fourth generations,” is demonstrated and literally fulfilled in the 22500834559