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    A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco
    A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco
    A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco
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    A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco

    By A. (Alvan) McAllister and Moses Stuart

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco - A. (Alvan) McAllister

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      Title: A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco

      Author: A. McAllister

      Editor: Moses Stuart

      Release Date: April 26, 2008 [EBook #25184]

      Language: English

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      A

      DISSERTATION

      ON THE

      MEDICAL PROPERTIES AND INJURIOUS EFFECTS

      OF THE

      HABITUAL USE OF TOBACCO:

      READ, ACCORDING TO APPOINTMENT, BEFORE THE MEDICAL

      SOCIETY OF THE COUNTY OF ONEIDA, AT THEIR

      SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING,

      JANUARY 5, 1830.

      BY A. McALLISTER, M. D.

      Second Edition.

      Improved and enlarged, with an Introductory Preface,

      BY MOSES STUART,

      Associate Professor of Sac. Lit. in the Theol. Inst. at Andover.

      BOSTON:

      PUBLISHED BY PEIRCE & PARKER,

      No. 9. Cornhill.

      NEW YORK:—H. C. SLEIGHT,

      Clinton Hall.

      1832.

      Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1832, by

      Peirce & Parker

      , in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

      PRESS OF PEIRCE & PARKER.

      No. 9, Cornhill.

      INTRODUCTION.

      The first edition of Dr. McAllister's Essay, was printed without any Appendix. Having myself been in the habit of using tobacco very moderately (usually but once in a day) from early life, I read the Essay as first printed with great interest. It appeared to me a sober, judicious, rational appeal to the understanding and judgment of the public, with respect to the subject of which it treats. A highly respected friend of mine desired me to give him my opinion of the Essay in writing. I consented to do this; and when I had done it, he judged it expedient to publish that opinion; to which I gave my consent. It was published in the Journal of Humanity; and for substance it was made up of an abridgement of Dr. McAllister's views, and some strictures on his style and method of treating the subject. In particular, a desire was expressed that Dr. McA. would discuss more fully some of the arguments employed in defence of using tobacco. This critique was sent to the author of the Essay; who in consequence of it expressed a willingness to revise his work, and make such additions as had been suggested. Some weeks since he transmitted to me a copy of the original edition, with a manuscript containing the Appendix to the present edition. At the same time he requested me to make any alterations in either part, which I might deem expedient. I have used this liberty so far as to change a few technical words for popular and intelligible ones. In some of these cases, I have detracted from the specific accuracy of the writer, as a medical man, for the sake of making his expressions more intelligible to the mass of readers. What he will thus lose, in his reputation for scientifical accuracy, he will gain by becoming more useful. A few other slight alterations and modifications have been made; but only such as I judged the worthy author would at once cheerfully admit. I have kept within the bounds of the liberty which he gave me; and I trust he will not be dissatisfied with what I have done.

      I command the serious perusal of the following Essay and Appendix to every man, who wishes to become well informed respecting the properties of tobacco. Whoever uses this substance as a luxury, is bound by a due regard to his own physical welfare to make himself acquainted with its properties and their influence. If any man can soberly peruse the following pages, without conviction that he is playing with edge-tools, while he is indulging in the use of tobacco, I must confess his mind to be of a composition different from mine.

      One word as to breaking off the habit. The difficulty, I fully believe, is not much less than the breaking off from ardent spirits. But as to any danger to health in breaking off, the fear is idle; excepting in case of delicate habits, where small changes produce great effects; or in case of advanced years and inveterate habit, where the course of those fluids which are so much affected by tobacco, if suddenly and entirely changed, may give rise to serious inconvenience. My belief, however, is, that there no case in which a judicious and proper course may not effect an entire weaning from the use of tobacco. Most persons in good health, and all in younger life, may break off at once, without the least danger. Two or three days will overcome all difficulty. Those whom slight changes in regimen affect very much, may break off more gradually; and so of persons advanced in life. A good way of accomplishing this, is to procure some of the most detestable tobacco which can be found, and when appetite will not forego the use

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