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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 TOBACCO.

BY A. McALLISTER, M. D.

Improved and enlarged, with an Introductory Preface,

BY MOSES STUART,
_Asso. Prof. of Sac. Lit. in Andover Inst._

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A DISSERTATION ON THE
MEDICAL PROPERTIES AND INJURIOUS EFFECT 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