Tobaccoism: or How Tobacco Kills
Battle Ceeek, MI: The Modern Medicine Publishing Company, 1922.
First edition, first printing. 160pp. Illustrated in color. Green cloth with gilt lettering and ruling. Very Good with a few light stains and faint insecting to cloth, internally fine.The doctor, cereal company namesake, and early 20th century health guru's thoughts on the dangers of tobacco use. Some of the ailments tobacco reputedly causes seem to this lay reader a little dubious: liver damage, "tobacco deafness," "tobacco blindness," and "tobaccco epilepsy," although the chapter on tobacco's effects on the lungs and circulatory system seem quite prescient. Item #180301002
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