Tobacco : what it is, and what it does / by Dan King.

  • King, Dan, 1791-1864.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Tobacco : what it is, and what it does / by Dan King. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    heavens, and go down in the west; and against such palpable testimony, no arguments founded upon abstract principles, had any force; the world looked upon the science of astronomy as the vagaries of mad men, and treated its authors as felons. At length the dawning of science slowly dissipated the darkness of ignorance and superstition, and by degrees men began to ques- tion the testimony of their senses, and reluctantly to acknowledge the wonderful truths announced by Gallileo and his followers. Yet, although the main principles of Grecian astronomy were sus- ceptable of easy demonstration, men were slow to set aside the prima facie evidence of their own senses, and embrace the sublime truths which it brought to light. And at the present time, the chemis's, physicians, and scientific men who by their labors and observations have ascer- tained the poisonous nature of tobacco, and its deleterious effects upon mankind, are regarded much as the ancients regarded the first promul- gators of astronomy. Every one has seen