Tobacco and Alcohol - James Parton
Titel:
Tobacco and Alcohol
Auteur:
James Parton
ISBN:
9781458985491
Pagina's:
54
Recentie:
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ty "! !2 It makes us regard woman from the Black Crook point of view. If it had not been for tobacco, that wretched phantasmagoria would not have had a run of a dozen nights. " Science " justifies this conjecture, and even if it did not, Mr. Parton intimates that he should make it. Doubtless ! One bit of Mr. Parton's philosophy stillcalls for brief comment. He wishes to speak of the general tendency of the poor man's pipe; and he means to say " that it tends to make him satisfied with a lot which it is his chief and immediate duty to alleviate,?he ought to hate and loathe his tenement-house home." A fine specimen of the dyspeptic philosophy of radicalism! Despise all you have got, because you cannot have something better. We believe it is sometimes described as the philosophy of progress. There can of course be no doubt that Mr. Parton's hod- carrier will work all the better next day, if he only spends the night in fretting and getting peevish over his "tenement-house home." 2 "When we first read this remark, we took it for a mere burst of impassioned rhetoric; but on second thoughts, it appears to have a meaning. Another knight- errant in physiology charges tobacco with producing "giddiness, sickness, vomiting, vitiated taste of the mouth, loose bowels, diseased liver, congestion of the brain, apoplexy, palsy, mania, loss of memory, amaurosis, deafness, nervousness, emasculation, and cowardice." Li- zars, On Tobacco, p. 29. A goodly array of bugbears, quite aptly illustrating the remark of one of our medical professors, that hygienic reformers, in the length of their lists of imaginary diseases, are excelled only by the itinerant charlatans who .vend panaceas. There is, however, no scientific foundation for the statement that tobacco " takes off the edge of virility." The ...
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