Tobacco and Alcohol
I. IT DOES PAY TO SMOKE.
II. THE COMING MAN WILL DRINK WINE.
BY
JOHN FISKE, M.A., LL.B.
—"Quæres a me lector amabilis quod plerique sciscitantur laudemnean vero damnem tabaci usum? Respondeo tabacum optimum esse. Tumi lector tabaco utere non abutere."—Magnenus Exercitationes de Tabaco,Ticino, 1658.
NEW YORK:
LEYPOLDT & HOLT.
1869.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1868, by
LEYPOLDT & HOLT,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the SouthernDistrict of New York.
Stereotyped by Little, Rennie & Co.,430 Broome St., New York.
PREFACE.
Five weeks ago to-day the idea of writing an essay upon thephysiological effects of Tobacco and Alcohol had never occurred to us.Nevertheless, the study of physiology and pathology—especially asrelating to the action of narcotic-stimulants upon nutrition—has forseveral years afforded us, from time to time, agreeable recreation.And being called upon, in the discharge of a regularly-recurring duty,to review Mr. Parton's book entitled "Smoking and Drinking," it seemedworth while, in justice to the subject, to go on writing,—until thepresent volume was the result.
This essay is therefore to be regarded as a review article, rewrittenand separately published. It is nothing more, as regards either thetime and thought directly bestowed upon it, or the completeness withwhich it treats the subject. Bearing this in mind, the reader willunderstand the somewhat fantastic sub-titles of the book, and thepresence of a number of citations and comments which would ordinarilybe neither essential nor desirable in a serious discussion. Had webeen writing a systematic treatise, with the object of statingexhaustively our theory of the action of Tobacco and Alcohol, weshould have found it needful to be far more abstruse and technical;and we should certainly have had no occasion whatever to mention Mr.Parton's name. As it is, the ideal requirements of a completestatement have been subordinated—though by no means sacrificed—tothe obvious desideratum of making a summary at once generallyintelligible and briefly conclusive.
The materials used especially in the preparation of this volume werethe following:
Anstie: Stimulants and Narcotics. Philadelphia, 1865.
Lallemand, Duroy, et Perrin: Du Rôle de l'Alcool et des Anesthésiques.Paris, 1860.
Baudot: De la Destruction de l'Alcool dans l'Organisme. UnionMédicale, Nov. et Déc., 1863.
Bouchardat et Sandras: De la Digestion des Boissons Alcooliques.Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 1847, tom. XXI.
Duchek: Ueber das Verhalten des Alkohols im thierischen Organismus.Vierteljahrschrift für die praktische Heilkunde. Prague, 1833.
Von Bibra: Die Narkotischen Genussmittel und der Mensch. Nürnberg,1855.
And the works of Taylor, Orfila, Christison, and Pereira, on MateriaMed