The young practitioner : with practical hints and instructive suggestions as subsidiary aids for his guidance on entering into private practice : being modified selections from, with additions to, "The Physician Himself" / by Jukes de Styrap.

  • De Styrap, Jukes.
Date:
1890
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Credit: The young practitioner : with practical hints and instructive suggestions as subsidiary aids for his guidance on entering into private practice : being modified selections from, with additions to, "The Physician Himself" / by Jukes de Styrap. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    injurious, acting (as, indeed, do all tobaccos, in a greater or less degree,) not only as powerful depressants on the heart, but on the nervous system also. Few persons can smoke them at all: none, habitually, with impunity! But even good tobacco, smoked to excess, will sooner or later prove injurious. On some individuals, indeed, any kind of tobacco will act as a poison, and produce (even in small quantities, and after repeated trials to inure the system to it,) vomiting, pallor, and alarming prostration. Such persons seldom, if ever, get seasoned to its effects : and, if they are wise, will for ever let it alone.—No one, moreover, when out of health, can smoke without risk of further impairing it. It may be well, there- fore, as a guide and a warning to Movers of the weed,' to note some of the particular disorders and conditions of health in which tobacco does especial harm:—A man, for example, with a bad appetite will, if he smoke, assuredly eat still less—a fact that should be carefully borne in mind by smokers recovering from wasting illness, and anxious for 'a whiff.' [This peculiar effect of tobacco, it maybe observed, whilst injurious to the sick man who cannot eat enough, becomes, so to speak, a boon to the poor starved man who cannot get enough, in so far as it tends to lull the pang of hunger.] Again; no man should smoke who has a furred tongue, or a bad taste in the mouth, or a weak or disordered stomach : in either case, he cannot relish his tobacco; and it should be a rule with smokers that the pipe or cigar which is not smoked with a relish, should not be smoked at all. In fact, indigestion in every form, and especially that which is accompanied by flatulence and diarrhoea, is aggravated by smoking. Another class of persons who should abstain from tobacco are those A'ho have (so called) 'weak nerves,' or suffer from giddiness, con- fusion of sight or thought, tremulous hands, a feeble circulation, palpitation, pain or feeling of distress in the heart-region, an inter- mittent or irregular pulse, cold hands and feet, langour,— and still more especially those who suffer from any degree of paral^'sis. The habitual or frequent use of tobacco in youth-hood, moreover, retards growth and development, and leads to an unhealthy change in the blood, pallor of the face, nausea, dyspepsia, emaciation, nervous- ness, palpitation and irregular action of the heart; no one, therefore, should smoke until he is well past that important period of life. So MUCH FOR THOSE WHO SHOULD NOT SmOKE !