 | Harriette Noel-Thatcher - Tobacco use - 1871 - 100 pages
...of its injurious effects."— John Skelton, Esq., MD •f Arthur Trevelyan, Esq., JP J " Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye ; hateful to the nose ; harmful to the brain (p. 15) ; dangerous to the lungs (p. 62) ; and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembles... | |
 | Russell Thacher Trall - Tobacco - 1872 - 78 pages
...pertinently than wa3 done long ago in the closing sentence of King James' " Counterblast to Tobacco." " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...dangerous to the lungs, and, in the black, stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." To which... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1873
...practice, that he wrote a book called ' The Counterblast to Tobacco, ' in which he described its use as 'a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.' Smoking in Eastern countries... | |
 | Adversaria - 1873
...thin, only stump, shuffle, jig, or amble — none but a Spaniard can walk. THE COUNTERBLAST TO TOBACCO. A CUSTOM loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...dangerous to the lungs, and, in the black stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless. — James... | |
 | Aaron Stevens Hayward - Magnetic healing - 1873 - 216 pages
...gives great offense to persons of delicate and unperverted sensibility. King James said of it, " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs." John Josselyn says of tobacco, although himself a lover of it, that " immoderately taken it drieth... | |
 | Medicine - 1874
...counterblast against the use of tobacco, says '' that smoking is a custom loathsome to the eyes, baneful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, reeking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless."... | |
 | Great Britain - 1874 - 319 pages
...of your mouths, and destroying, some gentlefolks £300 and some £400 a-year on this precious stink. A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs." CHARLES I., SECOND SON OF JAMES I. AND ANXE OF DENMARK. Born at Dnnfermline,... | |
 | Sir George Duncan Gibb - 1874
...persons will be disposed to indorse the concluding sentences of the King's opinion of the habit : — " A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful! to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof neerest resembling the horrible... | |
 | John Harvey Kellogg - Cooking - 1875 - 262 pages
...pertinently than was done long ago in the closing sentence of King James' " Counterblast to Tobacco." " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...dangerous to the lungs, and, in the black, stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." To which... | |
 | John Carrick Murray - Smoking - 1876 - 112 pages
...all foreign civil nations, and by all strangers that come among you to be scorned and contempted — a custom loathsome to the eye — hateful to the nose...dangerous to the lungs — and, in the black stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrid Stygian fumes of the pit that is bottomless. " It will... | |
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... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless. 
