ived from tobacco and taken into the system by those who chew or
smoke.

Dr. J. J. Kellogg says: "A few months ago I had all the nicotine
removed from a cigarette, making a solution of it. I injected half the
quantity into a frog, with the effect that the frog died almost
instantly. The rest was administered to another frog with like effect.
Both frogs were full grown, and of average size. The conclusion is
evident that a single cigarette contains poison enough to kill two
frogs. A boy who smokes twenty cigarettes a day has inhaled enough
poison to kill forty frogs. Why does the poison not kill the boy? It
does tend to kill him. If not immediately, he is likely to die sooner
or later of weak heart, Bright's disease, or some other malady which
scientific physicians everywhere now recognize as a natural result of
chronic nicotine poisoning."

A chemist, not long since, took the tobacco used in an average
cigarette and soaked it in several teaspoonfuls of water and then
injected a portion of it under the skin of a cat. The cat almost
immediately went into convulsions, and died in fifteen minutes. Dogs
have been killed with a single drop of nicotine.

A single drop of nicotine taken from a seasoned pipe, and applied to
the tongue of a venomous snake has caused almost instant death.

A Western farmer tried to rear a brood of motherless chickens in his
greenhouse. But the chickens did not thrive. They refused to eat;
their skins became dry and harsh; their feathers were ruffled; they
were feverish and drank constantly. Soon they began to die. As the
temperature and general condition of the greenhouse seemed to be
especially favorable to the rearing of chickens, the florist was
puzzled to determine the cause of their sickness and death. After a
careful study of the symptoms he found that the source of the trouble
arose from the fumes of the tobacco stems burned in the greenhouse to
destroy green flies and destructive plant parasites. Though the
chickens had always been removed from the greenhouse during the tobacco
fumigation and were not returned while any trace of smoke was apparent
to the human senses, it was evident that the soil, air, and leaves of
the plants retained enough of the poison to keep the chickens in a
condition of semi-intoxication. The conditions were promptly changed,
and the chickens removed to other quarters recovered rapidly and in a
short time were healthy and lively though they were