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

Author: R. D. Mussey

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AN ESSAY ON THE INFLUENCE OF TOBACCO UPON LIFE AND HEALTH.

BY R. D. MUSSEY, M. D.

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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--