ach. All the time I used tobacco my complaint was
supposed to be liver complaint, and I took medicine for it. I was
troubled with my food lying in my stomach, for hours after eating;
frequently I took rhubarb and salaeratus, to help digestion; when the
weight passed off, it left my stomach debilitated and full of pain, and
I then took my pipe to relieve it." There were frequent seasons when he
was obliged to quit labor, although this was his whole dependence for
a living.

Some additional particulars I recently obtained, viz. in April,
1836, in a personal conversation with Mr. Cummings. He remarked,
that he continued to take a little snuff for about four months after
discontinuing smoking and chewing. "While in the habit of smoking," said
he, "there was a hollow place in my stomach large enough to hold my two
fists, which nothing could fill; food would not do it; drink would not
do it; nothing but tobacco smoke." After quitting the tobacco "the
hollow place was gradually filled up;" the appetite increased, food
digested better, and all the unpleasant symptoms were removed in about
a month after the entire disuse of the snuff.

He observed to me that he never in his life used tobacco to excess,
but always "temperately"; although he admitted, the employing it in
three forms might have been equivalent to a rather free use of it in
one mode. The effects of tobacco on the senses of seeing and hearing,
in his case were very striking. He used spectacles for several years,
during his indulgence in tobacco, and he assured me that at the age of
fifty-five years, he could not read a word in any common book, even in
the strongest sunshine, without spectacles. He had also a ringing and
deafness in both ears for ten years, and at times the right ear was
entirely deaf. During the last year of his tobacco life this difficulty
very perceptibly increased. "In about a month," said he, "after quitting
tobacco in its last form, that is, snuff, my head cleared out, and I
have never had a particle of the complaint since; not the least ringing,
nor the least deafness." And it was not many months before he could
dispense with his spectacles, and "from that time to the present," says
he, "I have been able, without spectacles, to read very conveniently
and to keep my minutes, having been a good deal engaged in surveying
lands." He remarked, however, that when compelled to employ his eyes
upon a book for some hours in succession, especially at ev