Tobacco Blindness
The 'an ti- tobacco people ought to have their attentiou called to tho fact that " fcobacco-blind-ness" is becoming quite a common affliction. At present there are several persons boing treated for it at one London hospital. It first takes the form of " colour-blindness," the sufferers who have smoked themselves into this oondition being quite unable to distinguish the
colour of a piece of red cloth, held up before them. That is the popular medical test, though there is also a more scientific one. Eventually the victim, to "tobacco-blindness" sometimes loses his eysight altogether. Albhough smoking is to a large extent the cause of the malady, and so gives it its name, heavy drinkiug is also partly responsible. Unless the smoking and drinking go together, the " tobacco-hlindness" is not serious. A proof of this is that if a doctor has a case of it in hand, he always insists on abstinence, when, as a rule, the sufferer gradually regains his 6ight. — St. James' Gazette.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1816, 10 September 1886, Page 36
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165Tobacco Blindness Otago Witness, Issue 1816, 10 September 1886, Page 36
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