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They impair the organs of digestion, and may bring on fatuity, palsy, delirium, or apoplexy, " He says, "In those not accustomed to it, _tobacco_ excites nausea, vomiting, dizziness, indigestion, mentaldejection, and in short, the whole train of _nervous_ complaints. " Dr. Rees, in his Cyclopedia, says; "A drop or two of the chemical oil oftobacco, being put upon the tongue of a cat, produces violentconvulsions, and death itself in the space of a minute. " Dr. Hossack classes _tobacco_ with opi...um, ether, mercury, and otherarticles of the materia medica. He calls tobacco a "_fashionablepoison_, " in the various forms in which that narcotic is employed. --Hesays, "The great increase of dyspepsia; the late alarming frequency ofapoplexy, palsy, epilepsy, and other diseases of the nervous system; isattributable, in part, to the use of tobacco. " Dr. Waterhouse says that Linnæus, in his natural arrangement, has placedtobacco in the class _Luridæ_--which signifies, pale, ghastly, livid, dismal and fatal.
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