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LETTER IV. James Tenney Killed By The Fibst Quid; Ok Tobacco A
Murderer. Dear Billy:? I told you the other day that Tobacco
injured the health and shortened life. It would be strange if it
did not, because it is a poison, a very active poison; and this you
will find everywhere confirmed by men of science and sense. Two
drops of the oil of Tobacco, says Dr. Mussey, was sufficient to
distroy life in cats in three or four minutes. Two drops, on the
tongue of a red squirrel, destroyed life in one minute. A
Hottentot, placed the end of his pipe to the mouth of a snake, the
effect was instantaneous; with a momentary, convulsive motion, the
snake untwisted itself, and never stirred again. . I have known an
empiric, says Dr. Eberle, destroy in less than twenty minutes the
life of a charming little boy, by an immoderate injection of
Tobacco. People at the Sandwich Islands, we are told, carry smoking
so far, that they sometimes fall down senseless, and suddenly die.
Cases are reported in Medical Journals, of babes being poisoned by
sleeping in the same bed, or living in the same room, with fathers
who used this poison in great'quantities. The Salem papers say, in
so many words, that James Barry, twelve years old, was lulled by
smoking cigars. Whilst I am now writing, a lady assures me, that a
little child in the town of L , picked up a quid and put it into
its mouth, thinking it a raisin, (a quid that the hired man had
thrown upon the floor,) and died of the poison during the day.
There is no end, my Billy, in stating authorities, or in stating
fatal occurrences, in illustrating the point I have in view.
Doctors at home and abroad, in great numbers, agree in saying that
Tobacco is extremely hurtful, and sometimes fatal to life. Dr.
Twitchell, a p...
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