| Show for this paper TALK TO BOYS III AND THE ORGANS OP OF the organs of respiration are the air passages and the buus 9 sod and the thorax or chest cheer the passages which lead to the lungs begin witti with tile the mouth and the nostrils hence the parts directly CLed along those passages pass apes will be included in consideration here the office of the lungs as one of the respiratory or breathing organs is to take oxygen from the air giving givin git it to the blood and receiving lu in return carbonic acid gme gap and water foul with waste matter which the blood has ban picked up io in its circulation through the body in this proc process eiss of cleansing the blood is changed in color from purple to red the purified blood laden juden with the inspiring oxygen i conveyed to the heart sod and goes tiou bound ad inv dinv through the system while the exhaled air carries off ff the impurities AnslY analytis bis ot of the expired air shows that it has lost about one oce fourth of its oxygen an ani gained an equal amlund amant of carbonic iced gas gap ies organic am the proceed of respiration therefore may be said rosily really to consist in the circulation and assimilation ot of oxygen without which the whole vital machinery sapp aud and the circulation to fb abe lungs jungs and exhalation of of carboni carbonti car bonto acid and organic matter it has been learned that one of the chief constituents of tobacco smoke I 1 if this carbonic acid a gas as an fatal to life as it is in to a flume flame an instance of breathing air laden with it without the opportunity for circulation and purification may be found in the awful experience of the black hole ot of calcutta there one hundred and forty six prisoners were shut up in a room eighteen feet square with only two small oven openings ings on one ones side ld before before midnight many were ded dead siad and at six in the morning only twenty six persons still breathed lying in an unconscious condition when rescued the poisonous carbonic acid did the work one more illustration of inhaling this poison to la the air after she battle ot of austerlitz three hundred bussian Etu selan prisoners were confined lu in a cavern where two hundred and sixty of them perished in a few ew hours boun these are instances of re breathing air which serve erve to illustrate the danker danger of breath ing tobacco even la in small email quantities not only by smokers but by non smokers as its poison is convey ea to the lungs a quantity of the life giving oxygen is excluded and the blood is rendered unhealthy by the gas mingling with it the same as it does from re breathed air there is also iu in tobacco smoke as heavy perc percentage outage of the deadly nicotine this being taken by the breath ioto into the lungs is thereby conveyed to the blood to increase inore aee its fluidity and to operate as a rank poison in affecting all the tissues of the body the breath odthe of the tobacco user as it comes from his bis luki jul ap is evidence of the polluted state of his body his braine nerves muscles all the tissues are flavored with nicotine nio his blood to is loaded his body saturated with the poison the offensive odor of which bangs on tele bit breath for hours and sometimes for days after his bis last cigar or pipe the capacity of the be lunge lunga for a man of medium bight li 14 about three hundred and cubic inches of air after taking an ordinary breath by a vigorous rouB effort in expanding the lungs about one hundred cubic inches more may be inhaled than la usually takeda taken and by a strong effort after breathing about one hundred cubic inches more may be expelled than goes out in the ordinary operation besides thin thia about one hundred cubic inches cannot be expelled by voluntary effort and thip added to the manly five cubic inches inhaled in an ordinary breath makes up the total lung capacity as an stated or about eleven pints pinte lose wan than this capacity ot of necessity brings a weakened con construe tion and premature decay lo in the light ct those these facts the recent tests testa lt ht amberse college massachusetts are instructive the graduating claw class presented a marked difference JD in favor of nonsmoker non smoker who y exceeded the tobacco users in lung long capacity the nou noo smokers bad also gained in weight 24 per cent over the smokers smoker and jn in hight 37 per cent the record made at yale co verlow a period of eight successive years establishes a similar condition the non smokers were 20 per cent taller 26 25 per cent heavier and had 60 per cent more lung capacity than the smokers by this it Is shown conclusively that through tobacco smoking the students lost abree of their lung capao ity instead of three hundred and twenty five cubic inches aa given tot for an avert average man they had only two hundred and three cubic cable inches total capacity and in place ol of being able to regularly breathe twenty five cubic inches they inhaled low jeaa than trout twenty on one it la Is no wonder that the latest lafeat scientific investigation has hag been able to trace race directly to tobacco smoking consumption and other fatal lung diseases it if this were not done the taking in of of but abut five eighths of the amount of air necessary to the complete work of the juns in blood purl puri fl itself tel a the tale of a lite life shortened with as aa much certainty up a by the suicides crime while every person who re respires spites the smoke of a cigar or pipes pipe willingly or unwillingly must have his bis blood more or less im 1 with poison the irritating effects effect of tobacco smoke moke anthe laug me membrane also are characteristic of its lt influence on the nose noie and throat smoking la in especially productive of disease ot of the nose noie IQ in this regard the cigarette is i even worse than the cigar or pipe tor for the that valerian tincture of opium and other it ii lutious compounds are used in their manufacture havana flavoring as ae it 11 Is ie balled is made irom from the tonka beau which contains a deadly poison called melio mello lotie lotia seven grains of which will kill a dolt the irritating of the paper covering in ia carried into the lungs lunge along with the poison lumen of tobacco this o to cigarette smoking la Is not lessened lees ned ened by thoughts ot of the filthy mater material iaM refuse cigar etc used in ID the manufacture of cigarettes which so BO many of the boys suck duck at with as ae much avidity as an if they had bad delicious cou in their mouth moutte the low loss of the ciul sense ene of smell has baa been frequently traced to tobacco smoking and this sense onse is in greatly Offen offender deu la in persons who jo do not do de tile file themselves vs with the filthy wood weed SAYS bays he eminent physiological writer dr J H kellogg no one whose where ideas are not greatly perverted will be willing to saturate maturate himself with a smelling drug against which nature seeks to protect herself by destroying his sense of smell but which makes him a S nus DUS lance to every everybody bouy else not in the be sanie same condition as nim himself self 12 in ID being drawn through the air passages aga bj b too process of inspiration tobacco smoke passes directly into the mouth where its ita effects are immediately noticeable or of the moke dr richardson the great euga job authority on this subject says in the mucous membrane of the mouth it producer enlargement and sort new of the too ton all lia sore throat redness dryness and occasional peeling of the membrane and either unnatural firm nest and contraction or sponginess longineu of the gums gume and where the pipe rests reata on the lips lip oftentimes epithelial cancer PP one reason why the mouth and throat are I 1 injured duj ared even more by mok amok log ing than by chewing la a because the smoke conveys the noxious principle its iii a more concentrated form to the delicate linings lining in chewing me he mouth frequently grows grow lopsided by carrying carry log the quid mostly on one side aide but thi of the countenance also alao follows follow carrying the olgar cigar or pipe in thel the same position occasionally pipes pipea tire are made with small mall reservoirs under the bowl in which some of the poisonous vapor la is condensed to be emptied out periodically if two drops of this ghis oil were tp to be taken into the stomach at one dose it would result in almost mg certain death in using the cigar and cigarette and the he pipe without ut a reservoir this state oil is drawn into we he mouth 1 at first smoking produces produce dryness sua unnatural thirst which frequently proves an inducement to indulge iu ia alcoholic drinks in time chronic inflammation flam mation attends smoking resulting iu in smokers more bore throat anis disease is absolutely incurable so long as the use of tobacco in continued continue a and often causes deafness by extension of toe the disease to the ears ean sometimes ft a small blister appears in the mouth and by the continued irritation of she be acrid matter becomes an ulcer and finally assumes a cancerous character oter this class of disease boiten occur among heavy smokers kere ao an A o fleet effect of tobacco in the mouth Is ia to benumb the sense lenee of tate taste A man who chews or smoke dokea cannot distinguish delicate flavors flavon this he benumbing numbing influence on the nerves is ie a good illustration of the poisonous pouono ug influence which is ii exerted upon all living oella calls and upon every tissue laade and structure of the body tobacco cancer is ia an aff affection ecton of the lips lipe tongue or throat nearly every surgeon of experience has met cam of this drendul adul disease analog from tobacco smoking cancer rarely oc curs cure in these parts of the body from soy any other cause it Js is wholly incur able sod and works slow painful and certain death cancer of the lip has been observed as a in fr frequent quent occurrence in europe caused by the pressure and belt beat of the pipe or cigar in connection with the he irritation of the acrid oil here are noted some of the effects tefie of the tobacco habit any one of which lit la a terrible warning against the andul pence and yet our investigations have bays barely entered into the door to the human system there to ia further in cuiry to be made |
