Tobacco and Alcohol I. It Does Pay to Smoke. II. The Coming Man Will Drink Wine.

--"_Quæres a me lector amabilis quod plerique sciscitantur laudemne an vero damnem tabaci usum? Respondeo tabacum optimum esse. Tu mi lector tabaco utere non abutere._"--MAGNENU...

In the first place, we want some precise definition of the quite vaguely understood word, "narcotic." What is a narcotic? _A narcotic is any poison which, when taken in sufficie...

[16] "The origin of the belief that stimulation is necessarily followed by a depressive recoil is obviously to be found in the old vitalistic ideas. It is our old acquaintance,...

Before leaving this subject, it may be well to allude to Mr. Parton's remarks (p. 35) about "pallid," "yellow," "sickly," and "cadaverous," tobacco-manufacturers. He evidently m...

Such is one of the "spurts of extravagance" which Mr. Parton apparently thinks _will_ "bear the cold review of to-morrow morning." Having survived this, we may philosophically r...

This, we believe, is all that we need contribute at present to the subject of alcoholic narcosis. It will be seen that in maintaining that the Coming Man will drink wine, we are...

The researches of Bouchardat and Sandras,[23] and of Duchek,[24] have rendered it probable that, if alcohol undergoes any digestive transformation, it is first changed into alde...

"One of the most powerful writers of the day--to our own taste, indeed, the most powerful--the writer of all others who throws over the reader's faculties, for the time, the mos...