stunted in growth
because of this temporary exposure to the effects of nicotine. The
symptoms in the chickens were almost identical with the symptoms of
nicotine poisoning in young boys, and the effects were relatively the
same.

The most moderate use of the cigarette is injurious to the body and
mind of the youth; excessive indulgence leads inevitably to insanity
and death.

A young man died in a Minnesota state institution not long ago, who,
five years before, had been one of the most promising young physicians
of the West. "Still under thirty years at the time of his commitment
to the institution," says the newspaper account of his story, "he had
already made three discoveries in nervous diseases that had made him
looked up to in his profession. But he smoked cigarettes,--smoked
incessantly. For a long time the effects of the habit were not
apparent on him. In fact, it was not until a patient died on the
operating table under his hands, and the young doctor went to pieces,
that it became known that he was a victim of the paper pipes. But then
he had gone too far. He was a wreck in mind as well as in body, and he
ended his days in a maniac's cell."

Another unfortunate victim of the cigarette was, not long ago, taken to
the Brooklyn Hospital. He was a fireman on the railroad and was only
twenty-one years old. He said he began smoking cigarettes when a mere
boy. Before being taken to the hospital he smoked all night for weeks
without sleep. When in the hospital he recognized none, but called
loudly to everyone he saw to kill him. He would batter his head
against the wall in the attempt to commit suicide. At length he was
taken to the King's County Hospital in a strait jacket, where death
soon relieved him of his sufferings.

Similar results are following the excessive use of cigarettes, every
day and in all sections of the country.

"Died of heart failure" is the daily verdict on scores of those who
drop down at the desk or in the street. Can not this sudden taking
off, of apparently hale and sturdy men be related, oftentimes to the
heart weakness caused by the excessive use of tobacco and particularly
of cigarettes?

Excessive cigarette smoking increases the heart's action very
materially, in some instances twenty-five or thirty beats a minute.
Think of the enormous amount of extra work forced upon this delicate
organ every twenty-four hours! The pulsations are not only greatly
increased but a