Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large audience listened to Dr. Sargent's lecture yesterday afternoon on the effects of the use of tobacco. The specific cause for the existence of the desire of the human system for some substance of a narcotic nature, said Dr. Sargent, cannot be stated. It is sufficient to say that from time memorial it has existed, and has been recognized as a factor in the organization of the system. The means taken to gratify this desire are not universally the same but vary in different countries. But, unquestionably, tobacco is the most prominent of the narcotic substances...
...easily conceive, said Dr. Sargent, of a man's physical condition being such that he might use tobacco in a way that would do him good, but I never saw one who did. The fundamental cause of the injuriousness of tobacco is shown when a microscopic examination of the blood of a healthy person is made. The fact is then developed that the blood corpuscules are ranged regularly in rows, but in an habitual user of tobacco these corpuscules are not ranged in order but are apparently confused, and the liquid which supports them is much thinner. So that...
...retarding the waste of muscular tissue it prevents its replacement by new. When a man has a great mental strain upon him, tobacco is sometimes used with good effect, and also when he does no mental but only severe physical labor. A moderate use of tobacco, said Dr. Sargent, would be smoking twice a day. A smoke in a close room is twice as injurious as a smoke in the open air. A smoke before dinner is much more harmful than one after...
...Sargent lectures on the effects of tobacco in Sever 11 this afternoon...
...Grecian and Roman systems and ideas of physical development, said Dr. Sargent in a recent lecture, differed in that the former had three ends to attain - a perfect mind in point of education, a perfect working condition of the organs of the body, and especially a perfect body in the point of beauty and art - while the latter's sole object was to fit the body to endure the hardships of war. Thus among the Greeks we find the most perfectly and beautifully developed athletes. At the fall of Rome, and with the rise of Christianity, there was a change...