of N. Y., a man of severely abstemious habits in the
general, who seldom ate a child's portion of food or
slept over four hours of the night, to whom tobacco
was meat and drink in the literal sense. Indeed he
was wont to smoke himself to sleep after getting into
bed, and to have the cigar in early morning again
to smoke himself awake upon. He drank no liquor,
not the mildest ; but whenever and wherever seen,



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whether sitting at his office-desk or in his wagon on
the street, there he was, recognizable by the cigar in
a corner of his mouth if by no other sign. His daily
consumption was (so himself used to say) forty cigars ;
an intimate friend (that was, Mr. W.) reckons the
average was twenty. Fatal renal disease eventuated
here.
33. Well were it for all smokers would they give
the cigar the conge altogether. Sichel has remarked
a waning of the virile function under its use, and
Segalas gives a case. A young man had been in the
way of using for some time at the rate of twenty
cigars a day, but perceiving by-and-by a declining
of the venereal appetite he broke off suddenly, came
out right, and in due time married.
