TOBACCO.—The Abbe Migne has just addressed a letter to a very honorable director of one of the great seminaries of Paris, condemning the use of tobacco and snuff. This letter furnishes us with an opportunity to relating a fact that is personal to us. Several times in our youth and riper age we have taken up and discarded the use of the snuff box. In 1861, when writing our mathematical treatises, during our labors with M> Lindelof, for the calculation of variations, and when we commenced the editing of our lectures on analytical mechanics, we used snuff to excess, taking twenty-five grammes per day, incessantly having recourse to the fatal box and snuffing up the dangerous stimulant. The effect of this was, on the one hand, the stiffening of the nervous system, which we could not account for; on the other hand, a rapid loss of memory. Not only of the present but of the past. We had learned several languages by their roots, and word. Frightened at this considerable loss, we resolved in September, 1861, to renounce the use of snuff and cigars forever. This resolution was the commencement of a veritable restoration to health and spirits, and our memory recovered all its sensibility and force. The same thing happened to Mr. Dubrunfault, the celebrated chemist, in renouncing the use of tobacco. We do not hesitate in saying that for one moderate snuff taker or smoker, there are ninety-nine who use tobacco to excess
Title: TOBACCO.
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Media: Newspaper article, glued to Page 7 of the Ledger of Captain
W. B. Blair
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