Tobacco Blindness.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 195, 19 March 1887, Page 3

Tobacco Blindness.

The anti-tobacco people ought to have thetr attention called to the fact that " tobacco blindness " is becoming quite a common affliction. At present there aro f overal persons being treated for it at one London hospital, It first takes fche form of "colour blindness," the sufferers who Ji.ivq smoked themselves into this condition being quite unable to distinguish the colour of a piece of rod cloth held up before them. That ia the popular medical teat, though there is also a more sciontifie one: Eventually the victim of tobacco blind nees sometimes loses his eye eight altogether. Alchough pmoking is to fe large extent the cause of the malady, acd co gives ifc its name, heavy drinking ir> also partly responsible. Unlees the eaioking and drinking go together, the "tobacco blindness" is not serious. A proof of this is, that if a doctor bad . a cd?e of it ia hand, he always insists on abstinence, when, as a rule, the sufferer gtadu.'Uly regains his eight,— " St. James GasQtte."