. The Cuba review. 38 THE CUBA REVIEW ANTISEPTIC QUALITIES OF TOBACCO Recent investigations showing tobacco's higli value as an antiseptic agent are sum- marized in Le Correspondant of Paris, from which we quote: The researches of Tassinari and ]Molisch have now demonstrated the actual antiseptic value of tobacco with regard both to verte brates and to inferior creatures. Tobacco smoke serves to retard or arrest the development of certain bacteria which soon die if a single puff of tobacco smoke is injected upon them. It seems to act upon them as an anesthetic, exactly as do the vapors of ethe
. The Cuba review. 38 THE CUBA REVIEW ANTISEPTIC QUALITIES OF TOBACCO Recent investigations showing tobacco's higli value as an antiseptic agent are sum- marized in Le Correspondant of Paris, from which we quote: The researches of Tassinari and ]Molisch have now demonstrated the actual antiseptic value of tobacco with regard both to verte brates and to inferior creatures. Tobacco smoke serves to retard or arrest the development of certain bacteria which soon die if a single puff of tobacco smoke is injected upon them. It seems to act upon them as an anesthetic, exactly as do the vapors of ether and chloroform. This bacterecidal and antiseptic action has not yet been fully eludicated, but the Italian physiologist Cavarallo has proved that smoking not only increases the flow of shva, which probably explains the uneasiness of smokers after eating until they are able to indulge in pipe or cigar, but also sterihzes it. He also declares that tobacco is never the cause of mouth inflammation and the tumors of mouth and tongue, though it may be the determining agent wliich makes such causes, which are manj' and complex in character, active. When these statements of Cavarallo were published they roused much controversy, being bitterly attcked by the enemies of tobacco, though they were supported by a series of clinical experiments. His conclu- sions, however, have been brilliantly con- firmed by the work of Professor Wencke, of the Imperial Institute, of Berlin, who made many experiments during the recent cholera epidemic at Hanibm-g. Professor Wencke was struck by the fact that the workers in the cigar factories of that city were not attacked by the scourge, even when living in surroundings similar or identical with those of its victims. On making investigation he found that the water employed in one of these factories contained considerable numbers of germs, yet none of these was found alive on the finished cigars,. This led him to definite experiments. Some of the tobacco
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