Show Tobacco Causes Loss of Memory Those annoying and unaccountable lapses of memory experienced when one is unable to recollect some well known word or the name of some perfectly familiar fa-miliar friend are attributed by a French physiologist to the excessive use of tobacco to-bacco This gentleman has observed that aphasia and amnesia are at present almost unknown among tho gentler sex On the other hand he has nearly invariably inva-riably found these afflictions common in men who are habitually heavy smokers while in cases where they are only of rare occurrence he has frequently known the extraordinary lapse to have been preceded by an extra dose of the fragrant fra-grant weed It is comforting however to be assured by tho same authority that a moderate use of pipe or cigar is in no way harmful to the memory Westminster Gazette |