Mark Twain is perhaps America’s most beloved storyteller. His tales of the mischievous Tom Sawyer and hapless Pudd’nhead Wilson are still read and enjoyed by thousands today, long after the author turned in his quill and shuffled off this mortal coil. As a humorist, Twain remains unsurpassed in the trenchant and sometimes mordant humor he could contain in just a few words. He said, concerning politics: “It is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
But in 1897, Twain himself was in danger of losing his voice forever, along with his life! He was touring the Indian subcontinent as part of a world-wide lecture series to restore his embattled finances. But the heat and exhausting schedule laid him low in Calcutta, first with a cold, and then with pneumonia. In those days before antibiotics, there was not much to be done with a pneumonia victim except to make them comfortable and await the outcome. Twain took to his bed, and, an inveterate cigar smoker who refused to give up the unhealthy habit, he began sinking fast. British physicians called in on the case could only shake their heads, amid clouds of tobacco smoke, and remonstrate with Twain to refrain from his deadly habit until he got better. This he refused to do -- until he was introduced to cinnamon bark oil by an Indian surgeon who was called in to treat Twain’s waning appetite. The native surgeon put a drop of cinnamon oil in a glass of water for Twain to drink. Immediately, Twain’s appetite began returning -- and, even more heartening, his appetite for tobacco began to subside!
It took several weeks for Mark Twain to fully recuperate, but he was undoubtedly helped along by abstaining from his beloved cigars. He added a generous bonus to the Indian surgeon’s fee, and continued to use cinnamon bark oil as a digestive aid and to control his nicotine habit for the rest of his tour of India. This episode gave rise to the rumor that Twain had actually passed away -- to which he quipped to reporters: “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
Nowadays we know that cinnamon bark oil is an extraordinary aid in helping the immune system function properly, as well as a favorite flavoring agent in all sorts of food. Mark Twain’s belief in its effects on smoking cessation have never been followed up by any regular research -- but who knows? Some day the essential oil might indeed be used in addiction management.
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