Download or read book The Massachusetts Eclectic Medical Journal, 1883, Vol. 3 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Massachusetts Eclectic Medical Journal, 1883, Vol. 3: A Monthly Journal Devoted to Medicine and General Science That playing with fire breeds a sense of security from danger is nowhere better illustrated than in the almost universal use of that fragrant weed the smoke of which ascending heaven ward not only travels around the world with the sun, but lags behind to welcome the moon also. So common is this habit that a man who does not smoke is almost thought eccentric, and even women indulge unblushinglyw in scented cigarettes.' Among no class of men is smoking to excess more prevalent than with the doctors. It is not my purpose to condemn the habit, but merely in setting forth in orderly array the physiological and patho logical effects of the drug to leave it to point its own moral, that he that reads _may judge for himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.