. The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries. repared tobacco. It isnot in the natural leaf. It results from fermentation. Twolittle boys were overheard discussing tobacco merits and de-merits. One was in favor of tobacco, the other anti. Why, said anti, its so poisonous that a drop of the oil,put on a dogs tail, will kill a man in a minute. It is theopium in the best Havanas which enslaves the smokers morethan the tobacco. Those ciga
. The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries. repared tobacco. It isnot in the natural leaf. It results from fermentation. Twolittle boys were overheard discussing tobacco merits and de-merits. One was in favor of tobacco, the other anti. Why, said anti, its so poisonous that a drop of the oil,put on a dogs tail, will kill a man in a minute. It is theopium in the best Havanas which enslaves the smokers morethan the tobacco. Those cigars, also American manufacturedcigars, are dipped in a solution of opium. It is said thattwenty thousand dollars worth of opium is used annually inone cigar manufactory in Havana. SMOKERS AND CIIEWEKS. 647 The Street Nuisance. I knew, by the smoke that so lazily curledFrom his lips, twas a loafer I happened tomeet;And I said, If a nuisance there be in theworld,Tis the smoke of cigars on a frequentedstreet. It was night, and the ladies were glidingaround,And in many an eye shone the glitteringtear;But the loafer puffed on, and I heard not asound,Save the sharp, barking cough of eachsmoke-stricken THE SMOKER. Here is a blow from Horace Greeley. I do not saythat every chewer or smoker is a blackguard ; but show mea blackguard who is not a lover of tobacco, and I will showyou two white blackbirds. Good enough for Horace. Now, admitting that there are gentlemen who smoke andchew on the streets, how are ladies, or the people, to knowthat they are such, since the loafer, the blackguard, thethief, the pickpocket, the profaners of Gods name (all), theblackleg, the murderers bear the same insignia of their pro-fession? At one time, every man incarcerated in the Con-necticut state prison was a tobacco-user: nearly all, also, atthe Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts prisons. It is quite lamentable to see how liable tobacco-using is toconvert a thorough gentleman into a selfish, dirty
Size: 1620px × 1542px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectmedicine, bookyear187
