RT Journal
A1 WOODS M, Willard D
T1 SOme of the minor immoralities of the tobacco habit.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD April 1
VO XXXII
IS 13
SP 683
OP 687
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.92450400001001
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.92450400001001
AB When first aroused by feelings akin to indignation by the announcement that this society was about to give a "smoker," it was not because I loved less the brethren chiefly instrumental in making the compromising spectacle possible, but because I loved my profession and alma mater more.I had been taught, and still believe, that medicine is a sacred calling, that it combines in itself the excellencies of all professions, just as the greater contains the less; that the physician is, or ought to be, a man set apart, devoted to the betterment, not the destructive pleasures, or obliteration of the better interests of humanity, for the broad study of medicine, not to be confined within the narrow limits of therapeutics, considers man morally as well as physically and includes within its sphere the issues of life and death.As law concerns itself with his constitutional and other rights, theology