Tobacco as a Medicine.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 135, 2 January 1886, Page 5

Tobacco as a Medicine.

We incline to think that tobacco may be found to have as yet unsuspected value therapeutically, if we can only arrive at a correct notion of the precise manner in which its effects are produced, and then determine how to uae it. Great good would result from the use of tobacco as a drug, if only because then its abuses could be restrained. In the old days, before chloroform and otheranseathetics were discovered, the use of tobacco as a potent sedative to relax the muscles in dislocations and to facilitate the reduction of hernie was a clumsy expedient. It was speedily abandoned when better stupefying agents were provided. It would, however, have been wiser to investigate the action of the agent more closely, instead of throwing it wholly aside.-— "London Lancet."

Mrs Langfcry, not satisfied with the natural colour of her hair, which was beautiful, and of which she took incessant care, has painted it a kind of reddish colour— which, it appears, is becoming the fashion in Paris— and has much injured her appearance. * At a recent wedding, the organist created some amusement by interpolating "Prithee, little maiden, will you marry me?" from "Patience," in hid music at a critical point in the ceremony.