Cautions against the immoderate use of snuff. Founded on the known qualities of the tobacco plant; and the effects it must produce when this way taken into the body: and enforced by instances of persons who have perished miserably of diseases, occasioned, or rendered incurable by its use / by Dr. J. Hill.

  • Hill, John, 1714?-1775.
Date:
1761
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Credit: Cautions against the immoderate use of snuff. Founded on the known qualities of the tobacco plant; and the effects it must produce when this way taken into the body: and enforced by instances of persons who have perished miserably of diseases, occasioned, or rendered incurable by its use / by Dr. J. Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ** ) there, it receives a great deal from the tiniture of the Snuff even before that tific- ture reaches the domach. This is the real fource of that fatisfac- lion, which perfons accudomed to Snuff, receive from it; but ’tis little underdood, and bed: it fhould remain fo. It does not caufe them to fneeze, nor are they dis¬ appointed ; for they do not expedt, or defire it fhould. Here is indeed a fhoit and immediate caufe for its effective qua¬ lities : but there is alfo the mod immi¬ nent danger. This delicate and downy fubdance of the lining of the cefophagus, while it receives the virtues of the faliva, drongly impregnated with Snuff, may alfo detain a portion of it on fome unlucky occafion ; and, from its irritation, when lodged upon a part fo tender, and fo large¬ ly fupplied with blood veffels, there will naturally arife an inflammation which no hand can reach, with an extenfion of the injured part, whofe progrefs nothing can dop, and whofe end mud be fatal.