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    An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health
    An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health
    An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health
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    An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health

    By R. D. (Reuben Dimond) Mussey

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateApr 1, 2008
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      An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health - R. D. (Reuben Dimond) Mussey

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      Title: An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health

      Author: R. D. Mussey

      Release Date: October 30, 2006 [EBook #19667]

      Language: English

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      AN

      ESSAY

      ON THE

      INFLUENCE OF TOBACCO

      UPON LIFE AND HEALTH.

      BY R. D. MUSSEY, M. D.

      Price ten cents.

      AN

      ESSAY

      ON THE

      INFLUENCE OF TOBACCO

      UPON LIFE AND HEALTH.

      BY R. D. MUSSEY, M. D.

      Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the Medical Institution of New Hampshire, at Dartmouth College; Professor of Surgery and Obstetrics in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the Western District of the State of New York; President of the New Hampshire Medical Society; Fellow of the American Academy of Sciences; and Associate of the College of Physicians at Philadelphia.

      BOSTON:

      PUBLISHED BY PERKINS & MARVIN.

      PHILADELPHIA: HENRY PERKINS.

      1836.

      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1836,

      By Perkins & Marvin,

      in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

      ESSAY ON TOBACCO.

      In the great kingdom of living nature, man is the only animal that seeks to poison or destroy his own instincts, to turn topsy-turvy the laws of his being, and to make himself as unlike, as possible, that which he was obviously designed to be.

      No satisfactory solution of this extraordinary propensity has been given, short of a reference to that—

      "first disobedience and the fruit

      Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste

      Brought death into the world and all our wo,

      With loss of Eden."

      While the myriads of sentient beings, spread over the earth, adhere, with unyielding fidelity, to the laws of their several existences, man exerts his superior intellect in attempting to outwit nature, and to show that she has made an important mistake, in his own case. Not satisfied with the symmetry and elegance of form given him by his Creator, he transforms himself into a hideous monster, or copies upon his own person, the proportions of some disgusting creature, far down in the scale of animal being. Not content with loving one thing and loathing another, he perseveres in his attempts to make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter, till nothing but the shadow is left, of his primitive relishes and aversions. This is strikingly exemplified in the habitual use of the narcotic or poisonous vegetables.

      History.

      Tobacco is generally regarded as having originated in America. Its name appears to have been derived from Tabaco, a province of Yucatan, in Mexico, from which place it is said to have been first sent to Spain; or, as some assert, though with less probability, from an instrument named Tabaco, employed in Hispaniola in smoking this article.

      Cortez sent a specimen of it to the king of Spain in 1519. Sir Francis Drake is said to have introduced it into England about the year 1560, and, not far front the same time, John Nicot carried it to France; and Italy is indebted to the Cardinal Santa Croce for its first appearance in that country.

      Traces of an ancient custom of smoking dried herbs having been observed, it has been suggested that tobacco might have been in use in Asia, long before the discovery of America. The fact, however, that this plant retains, under slight modifications, the name of tobacco, in a large number of Asiatic as well as European dialects, renders almost certain the commonly received opinion, that it emanated from this country, and from this single origin has found its way into every region of the earth, where it is at present known. If this be the fact, the Western hemisphere

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