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 mouth, nose, eyes, or ears taken separately or taken conjunctively." In which definition I would direct your attention to the term "some part" as being significant, and, as far as I know, novel. For it is not necessary to smoking that the whole of the tobacco inhaled should be also exhaled—nay, it is impossible that this is ever the case, a certain portion of each inhalation being retained within the body, on which it exerts its nicotinic virtue.

Which observation recalls our attention to the subject under discourse—