Extracts and Recollections of Two Lectures on the Evil Effects Arising from the Use of Tabacco in Its Various Forms: Given in the Manchester Mechanics' InstitutionEllerby and Cheetham, 1842 - 24 páginas |
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... injurious , and useless appendages to society , which are often misnamed " luxuries , " I mean smoking , chewing tobacco , and taking snuff . These practices are of so filthy and disgusting a nature , and attended by so many evils , pro ...
... injurious , and useless appendages to society , which are often misnamed " luxuries , " I mean smoking , chewing tobacco , and taking snuff . These practices are of so filthy and disgusting a nature , and attended by so many evils , pro ...
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... injurious qualities were so apparent that it ought never to be used except when given under the guidance of a medical man , and never to be countenanced as a luxury from the known evils it possessed ; even its powers as a medicine , are ...
... injurious qualities were so apparent that it ought never to be used except when given under the guidance of a medical man , and never to be countenanced as a luxury from the known evils it possessed ; even its powers as a medicine , are ...
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... injurious customs , has applied it , and which has now grown into a habit so absurd and ridiculous , and yet so universally adopted , that all efforts must be una- vailing that attempt to eradicate it entirely , the only hope remaining ...
... injurious customs , has applied it , and which has now grown into a habit so absurd and ridiculous , and yet so universally adopted , that all efforts must be una- vailing that attempt to eradicate it entirely , the only hope remaining ...
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... injurious to the human system , even if the liquors resorted to are of an innocent description ; but how seldom do cigar smokers appease their thirst by taking these ! On the contrary , they drink those of the most intoxicating nature ...
... injurious to the human system , even if the liquors resorted to are of an innocent description ; but how seldom do cigar smokers appease their thirst by taking these ! On the contrary , they drink those of the most intoxicating nature ...
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... injurious , and unattended with those benefits its votaries , in their enthusiasm , have bestowed upon it , yet , in comparison with chewing , snuffing , and plugging , is the least injurious . Men of the highest literary attainments ...
... injurious , and unattended with those benefits its votaries , in their enthusiasm , have bestowed upon it , yet , in comparison with chewing , snuffing , and plugging , is the least injurious . Men of the highest literary attainments ...
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Página 6 - It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and, in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless...
Página 7 - Have you not reason then to be ashamed, and to forbear this filthy novelty, so basely grounded, so foolishly received and so grossly mistaken in the right use thereof?
Página 20 - Yet snuff-taking is an odd custom. If we came suddenly upon it in a foreign country, it would make us split our sides with laughter. A grave gentleman takes a little casket out of his pocket, puts a finger and thumb in, brings away a pinch of a sort of powder, and then with the most serious air possible, as if he was doing one of the most important actions of his life (for even with the most indifferent snuff-takers there is a certain look of importance) , proceeds to thrust, and keep thrusting it,...
Página 11 - I have been a Professor in this University twenty-three years, and can say, as a physician, that I never observed so many pallid faces, and so many marks of declining health ; nor ever knew so many hectical habits and consumptive affections...
Página 19 - Every professed, inveterate, and incurable snuff-taker," says his lordship, "at a moderate computation, takes one pinch in ten minutes. Every pinch, with the agreeable ceremony of blowing and wiping the nose and other incidental circumstances, consumes one minute and a half.
Página 6 - That tobacco was the lively image and pattern of hell; for that it had, by allusion, in it all the parts and vices of the world whereby hell may be gained; to wit: First, It was a smoke; so are the vanities of this world.
Página 4 - ... thriven very well in our English soil ; a great quantity of it grows yearly in several gardens about Westminster, and in other parts of Middlesex. It is planted in great plenty in Gloucester, Devonshire, and some other western countries; his Majesty sending every year, a troop of horse to destroy it, lest the trade of our American plantations should be incommoded thereby.
Página 7 - ... novelty, so basely grounded, so foolishly received and so grossly mistaken in the right use thereof? In your abuse thereof sinning against God, harming yourselves both in...
Página 11 - When tobacco is taken into the stomach for the first time, it creates nausea and extreme disgust. If swallowed, it excites violent convulsions of the stomach and of the bowels, to' eject the poison either upward or downward. If it be not very speedily and entirely ejected, it produces great anxiety, vertigo, faintness, and • > prostration of all the senses ; and, in some instances, death has followed.
Página 6 - He that taketh tobacco saith he cannot leave it, it doth bewitch him: even so the pleasures of the world make men loath to leave them, they are for the most part so enchanted with them.