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...idea that tobacco allays nervousness is exploded; as although by constant use of it the system becomes so accustomed to it as not at the time to exhibit any effect, yet it tends to irritate the nervous system. If it were not for the action of the liver and kidneys in throwing off the tobacco poison, a user of the weed could not live. The action of these organs is shown by the yellowish tint and puffed condition of the skin of the habitual tobacco user. Although it has been much discussed whether or not tobacco is good...
...editorial in the Boston Advertiser says : "For instance, too much Spanish mackerel palls, gallons of toothsome terrapin congest spleens, and chicken liver en brochette in incessant doses have been known to discomfit the digestion of even a Harvard boy." The writer probably has dined at Memorial...
...class of '79, died at De Lancey, New York, September 26, of cancerous affection of the liver...
...literary matter in the last two issues of the Record reminds one strongly of the bill of fare in the boarding-house, where they had 'lungs, liver, and lights' for breakfast; 'lights, liver, and lungs,' for dinner, and so on in ever-pleasing variety...
Holworthy Four. - Macmillan, stroke, Upham, Liver-more...