on the tongue of a Cat or a Dog, that you don't wish to |
| kill by the tedious method or shooting or drowning, and see what the |
| effect will be. See if Strychnine will do its work so quick. |
| |
| Doctors: men whose profession is to play with poisons as with so many |
| deadly vipers, stand back and behold its poisoned fangs with horrow, |
| not daring to lay hold on it and use it as a medicine for his sick |
| wife or child. No he shuns it with a deathly horrow! Though himself |
| may be a SLAVE to the slower action of its devitalizing powers on mind |
| and body. |
| |
| An over dose of tobacco is incureable because of its peculiar effect |
| upon the system. The effect is known by a deathly paleness and |
| sickness, then the air suddenly becomes too warm and oppressive, the |
| patient desires a cool situation, a drink of cold water and a fresh |
| breeze, the strangest of all is at the same time the patient is so |
| stimulated the action of the heart decreases, and to give a stimulant |
| to increase it, it increases its virulence in proportion to the |
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| increase of the suffocating and sickening sensation: and to give the |
| medicine to allay that, still decreases the motion of the heart's |
| action. Thus an antidote is instantly transformed into fuel to feed |
| the unquenchable flame that is already devouring the human vitals. |
| |
| It is no use in telling you by this time that I talk not about tobacco |
| "like a book," but like one who has been tobacconized. For I have been |
| one of those unfortunate boys who never had an opportunity of learning |
| any thing except from that cross old pedagogue Experience, who |
| invariably compelled me to work out my own problems, often have I in |
| scalding tears of bitter regret.