picture to the drunkard, with all the |
| glowing colors of pandemonium. |
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| Dr. Mussey says he was acquainted with a gentleman in Vermont who |
| conscientiously abstained from all intoxicating drinks and yet died of |
| delirium tremens. Dr. Lauren and many other medical writers speak of |
| similar cases within their knowledge. Many of our best physicians |
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| concur the opinion in that many of the cases of delirium tremens |
| imputed to alcohol are mostly due to the use of tobacco. |
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| You ought never listen to a self styled temperance-man who lectures a |
| drinker, with his mouth full of tobacco juice. The drinker if he uses |
| no tobacco is the most temperate man of the two. It is a gross insult |
| to an audience to eject on them alcoholic vituperation and nicotianic |
| expectoration at the same time. That audience should say; first go |
| reform thy-self thou intemperate SLAVE of poison! |
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| We have no room for the introduction of proof of our assertions on the |
| evils of tobacco. But if you wish to have an abundance of evidence |
| that tobacco produces the diseases which we herein mention you will |
| just please to consult Dr. Lizars, he will furnish you with cases and |
| proof. Read Dr. Mussey's 'Essay on Tobacco,' published by the American |
| Tract Society. And here let me ask all who have the good of humanity |
| at heart, to place this lecture in the hands of every one of your |
| tobacconized neighbors. The circulation of anti-tobacco and |
| anti-alcohol tracts will do more good than all other tracts besides. |
| For those are the root and foundation of almost every disorder of mind |
| and body, even upon those who never used it: for it is written: "I |
| will visit the sins and iniquities of the fathers upo