Cautions to young persons concerning health, in a public lecture delivered ... in the chapel at Cambridge, November 20, 1804, containing the general doctrine of dyspepsia and chronic diseases; shewing the evil tendency of the use of tobacco upon young persons, more especially the pernicious effects of smoking cigars. With observations on the use of ardent and vinous spirits / [Benjamin Waterhouse].

  • Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846
Date:
1822
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Credit: Cautions to young persons concerning health, in a public lecture delivered ... in the chapel at Cambridge, November 20, 1804, containing the general doctrine of dyspepsia and chronic diseases; shewing the evil tendency of the use of tobacco upon young persons, more especially the pernicious effects of smoking cigars. With observations on the use of ardent and vinous spirits / [Benjamin Waterhouse]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ TO THE - / ; u ■ • j. ' . I MEDICAL STUDENTS, RESIDENT GRADUATES, AND SCHOLARS OF EVERY CLASS. Your application for a copy of my Lecture for the press, indi¬ cates a disposition to persevere in the general resolution to relin¬ quish an unhealthy and unseemly practice. I shall set a value on this production, should I hereafter find, that it has, in any way, assisted you in the attainment of that ■ V;ifii^MBrfftrBar ' greatest of all earthly blessings, “ a sound mind in a sound BODY.” Benjamin Waterhouse. Cambridge, January, 1805.