[18] “Diseases of Modern Life,” by B. W. Richardson, M.D. pp. 228 and 229.
[19] The writer is here describing a personal experience.
[20] “After a short time the products of tobacco find a ready exit out of the system. They are thrown out by the three great eliminatories—the lungs, the skin, and the kidneys. The volatile matters exhale by the lungs; * * * while both (nicotine and the bitter extracts), I believe, are carried off by the kidney, the grand eliminator of all poisons of the soluble type.”—“Diseases of Modern Life,” by B. W. Richardson, M.D., pp. 283 and 285.
[21] Quoted by John Lizars—“The Use and Abuse of Tobacco,” New York, 1880, p. 21.