Tobacco and Mental EfficiencyMacmillan, 1923 - 258 páginas |
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abstainers accurate addicted arettes Author bacco began smoking began to smoke believe boys Bragge's Collection cent of loss CHAPTER cigar cigarette smokers control days taken coöperating creative day-tobacco smoke detrimental drug effect of tobacco Ensley High School excess experience experimental factors grade Group harmful high school HORACE MCFARLAND HUDSON MAXIM individual influence of tobacco intel intellectual functions intellectual processes investigation IRVING FISHER laboratory large number less light smokers LL.D loss or gain March 15 Medical mental efficiency mental functions mental processes mind moderate nervous never smoked nicotine non-smokers are denoted normal performance persons physical prejudice presented principals and faculties Professor rate of pulse records regarding reported rôle scholarship secure smok smoke a cigar smoked pipe snuff stimulant Superintendent Table Test II Test Test III Average test period testimonies tion tobacco days Tobacco Habit tobacco smoke University vasoconstrictor women writer ΙΟ
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Página 28 - ... a lone man's companion, a bachelor's friend, a hungry man's food, a sad man's cordial, a wakeful man's sleep, and a chilly man's fire, Sir ; while for stanching of wounds, purging of rheum, and settling of the stomach, there's no herb like unto it under the canopy of heaven.
Página 22 - I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes. 146 I cried unto thee ; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
Página 8 - The pipe, with solemn interposing puff. Makes half a sentence at a time enough; The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain. Then pause, and puff— and speak, and pause again. Such often, like the tube they so admire, Important triflers ! have more smoke than fire.
Página 9 - If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood; that they are tapping their arteries as surely and letting their life's blood out as truly as though their veins and arteries were severed, and that the cigarette is a maker of invalids, criminals and fools — not men — it ought to deter them some. The yellow finger stain is an emblem of deeper degradation and enslavement than the ball and chain.
Página 242 - A. SMOKER'S GUIDE (THE), PHILOSOPHER AND FRIEND. What to Smoke— What to Smoke With— and the whole "What's What" of Tobacco, Historical, Botanical, . Manufactural, Anecdotal, Social, Medical, &c.
Página 23 - I will not own to sin when I am not conscious of it. There is growing up in society a Pharisaic system which adds to the commands of God the precepts of men ; to that system I will not yield for an hour. The preservation of my liberty may bring upon me the upbraidings of many of the good, and the sneers of the self-righteous : but I shall endure both with serenity, so long as I feel clear in my conscience before God. " The expression ' smoking to the glory of God...
Página 3 - The honour they do unto it. Tobacco engages Both sexes, all ages, The poor as well as the wealthy, From the court to the cottage, From childhood to dotage, Both those that are sick and the healthy.
Página 8 - A leaf or two being steeped o'er night in a little white wine is a vomit that never fails in its operation. It is a good companion to one that converseth with dead men, for if one hath been poring long upon a book, or is toiled with the pen and stupefied with study, it quickeneth him, and dispels those clouds that usually o'erset the brain.
Página 34 - ... stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used ; but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
Página 28 - ... away from the hill on which we stood, far among the furze and brambles below, and went home in triumph; I began to be very miserable, was wretched all night; in the morning I was walking on the same hill, I saw Charles Lamb below, searching among the bushes; he looked up laughing, and saying, 'What, you are come to look for your snuff box too!