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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    ( 3* ) to Snuff, and took it in very great quari^ tity. After the ufe of about a quarter of a pound of Snuff, which fhe perceived to be particularly acrid s fhe felt a firange forenefs in the upper part of her left nof- tril j running, as fhe expreffed it, toward the griftle of the nofe s fhe left off that particular parcel of Snuffs but continued to take the ufual kind as much as ever. No fwelling was perceived ; but, after a little time came on a difeharge of a very offenfive matter; not in great quantity, but of an intolerable fmell, and the more fo to her, as fhe was naturally a perfon of great delicacy. The difeharge en- creafed, and it foon became neceffary for her to leave off Snuff. A furgeon was employed, but to very little purpofe : the fymptoms continued : the ulcer encreafed, and, from time to time, pieces of the hone came away.’ Death, from another difeafe, put an end to that mifery, which all the art of phyfiek