Show written WOW for tw thu TALK TO BOYS IV TOBACCO AND THE circulatory SYSTEM it Is in not claimed that all the evils evile heretofore mentioned or that may be enumerated as aa arising from the use of tobacco always result from free indulgence dul gence but the tobacco habit Is one of the most moat prolific fic of causes that produce them and some ares are eure to follow in every came where the habit prevails prevail some borne are peculiar to the drug while others may be produced from a variety of causes almost every boy understand through the first experience peri per lence ence of those who have tried tobacco chewing that it produces nausea and vomiting but there are many other things that also incite nausea and usually men are expected to have sense enough to avoid them whenever practicable though they do not always do so BO smokers kerie and chewers do not always feel themselves being injured by the be narcotic hence they often fancy it to is not doing them tarm any harm how unwise they are who I lav this flattering unction to their eoula on bueb a basis may be understood when it lit is out get boated ted hat bat the poison of the most virulent diseases dise aies mingles unfelt and unobserved in the blood while preparing for outward develop ment the virus of hydrophobia way may lie dormant and inper for months and even years indeed but a small email proportion of those bitten by rabid animals are attacked by hydrophobia yet that man would be very foolish who would risk being bitten merely because there way may me twenty five or even fifty chances of escape to one of seizure with the terrible disease and with the tobacco habit the probable immunities from future serious trouble are not nearly so numerous as in tho the came of dog bite bites the poisonous principle in tobacco finds ready access in every part of the body through the circulatory system this system comprises the heart blood blood vessels etc the heart is the great center of this circulatory apparatus it is a self operating force pump which alternately filling and empty ing itself keeps up the circulation of the blood through the body from earliest infancy to the last moment of life this marvelous little machine about the size of a person persons a list fist throbs on continually at the rate of boats bests per day year in year out often without a single stop and in such ouch lives as we sometimes see has propelled half a million tons of blood and repaired itself as it has wasted wanted during its patient unfaltering labor yet when by any interference it ceases to work mortal life Is ended other organs organ falter and fail but so long as a flutter flatter lingers at the heart the spark of we lite is in not extinct and there is hope of restoration with the hearts beans action impaired or weakened the days of man must be out short abort how the perfect rhythm 0 of the throb in health of this wonderful muscle may oe no compared with its movement when obstructed by certain substances taken into the body is told by that ingenious instrument the he or pulse writer here to Is an illustration of tests made by the celebrated dr parkes farces of the sanitary department of the british british army OP OF HEALTHY PERSON OP OF USER OP OF A few weeks ago io in liverpool england a coro coroner nerys jury was summoned to ascertain the cause of death in a young man whose heart bad suddenly ceased to work it proved to be just fust such a case as that indicated here by the carried to its legitimate result the heart valves were paralyzed by nicotine he be had dropped dead of smokers smoker Is heart brought on OD through the cigarette habit As to is here shown the pulse of the tobacco user indicates unmistakably the injury which the drug works upon the heart it has lost the firm steady beat of health and to Is feeble and irregular the illustrates the story it describes the condition now so no well known to physicians as tobacco heart beart those medical authorities who have hare made careful investigation of the subject state that not less leas than ono on in every four users of tobacco have this kind of heart the examining surgeons ot of the united jolted states army say that a large share of the young men who are rejected are found to be suffering from tobacco heart they are unfit for soldiers err are they not also unfit for husbands and fathers in writing of the disease known as angina peo toru toris a very painful and dangerous complaint believed to depend upon fatty degeneration of the heart dr gibbons says that in a number of instances within his bis knowledge it entirely disappeared on the patient abandoning the tobacco habit in one case cage it temporarily returned to one who had been cured in this ways way by ble bis inhaling the moke emoke freely in comp company aily one everida eVeRID 9 without smoking himself the affliction is marked by sharp pain in the region of the heart shooting into the clients chest neck and arms arm with faintness and prostration persons affected are apt to die suddenly sitting allting up or lying jy log in bed dr gibbons states that diseases die eases of the heart and large arteries appear to be increasing to an alarming extent in some parts of the country more particularly on the pacific coast const they are generally incurable and inevitably fatal it is worthy of serious inquiry how for far the increase to is chargeable to the effects of tobacco and alcohol accumulating from generation to stene generation ration 21 Rome sometimes times we see persons who have abandoned the tobacco habit grow erow fat rapidly the production of fat is so great as to induce them to co return to tino the 10 old practice in self defense it is the same earne as with the morphine or opium fiend who must have the poison to prolong his bit life which in the end is all the more miserable such persons as have to return to the tobacco habit to prevent and increase of adipose tissue are troubled with fatty heart which to is a certain harbinger of early and sudden death their only hope of prolonging life is to break away from tobacco completely ore ere it Is too late to do so without producing a fatal result the blood Is a living substance corn com bof pored ed of organized globules glo bules or cor muscles pus cleB cles visible with vie the microscope and swimming in serous or watery fluid the effect of tobacco io in the blood is in to change the shape of these corpuscles corpus cles or in other words to kill them an do other bolsom po leoa hence the peculiar pallor of the inveterate smoker caused by the injury to the red cor muscles in the blood of the effects of tobacco in the circulatory system dr says in the heart it causes debility of the organ and irregular action in the blood it causes un due fluidity and change in the red corpuscles corpus cles 2 P this thin change in the blood oan can be perceived by aid of the micro scope cope the Intelli intelligent gernt reader contemplating the great importance of pure and fully vitalized vitali zed blood on which depends the healthy motion action of the body can put to himself the question whether the poisonous nicotine which makes a change so 90 great as to be dei tooted by the microscope oan can mingle with the blood day after day and year after year with impunity it may be basked why it lf is it if these foots facto are definitely determined that some tobacco users live to old age and are apparently hale bale and hearty the answer to ie in the suggestion to note the fact that those of this da clan who are physically strong are mentally dull also that the human system has a wonderful power of adaptation so ao great indeed that one may accustom himself gradually to the use of almost any poison until be can take ic in enormous dosee and apparently with out ont suffering buffering immediate injury if it were not for this many tobacco users would not live twenty tour four hours because of diese minati on ot of the poison through the tho circulatory system paul du Chall lu being bitten frequently by snakes snake had his body so stron strongly itly impregnated with the poison that the bite of the most venomous reptile seemed to have very little effect upon him yet the poison which had bad been thus injected into his system had an injurious effect upon his health per gone way may train themselves to the use of large quantities of opium morphine or other poisons po isona but their physical and mental powers are weak weakened enea thereby so it la in with tobacco its use uee causes destructive changes by which death way may be slowly taking place all the time this fact leads dr kellogg whose views are in conformity to those of other leading physicians who have given abe subject careful attention to declare that without doubt hoge who habitually habitually use tobacco actually die of its use since their lives are shortened or their systems prepared for the ready recep tion of some disease which carries them oft off prematurely no boy or young man can afford to co quire acquire the practice of using this filthy weed its effects upon adults are bad enough but upon boys anti and young men its itil ID influence fluence is in even corae the septuagenarian who to is a tobacco user umer wout i have ilive lived longer still and might have been a centenarian but for the poison nicotine which prematurely exhausted the powerful little heart engine or deprived the blood of its life giving qualities |