Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . h is 362 HYGIENE, OR THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH. considerably higher than that of the system, are, in fact, much ofthe time in a kind of fever that must consume the vital force. Their labor being neither elevating nor energizing to the mind,affords no stimulus to the higher nature, by which the injurious fea-tures of their occupation may be counteracted. Stone-cutters and knife-grinders suffer from a kind of bronchiti
Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . h is 362 HYGIENE, OR THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH. considerably higher than that of the system, are, in fact, much ofthe time in a kind of fever that must consume the vital force. Their labor being neither elevating nor energizing to the mind,affords no stimulus to the higher nature, by which the injurious fea-tures of their occupation may be counteracted. Stone-cutters and knife-grinders suffer from a kind of bronchitispeculiar to themselves, caused by the irritation of the fine particlescontinually inhaled. It has been estimated that in one of the Sheffieldmanufactories 75 pounds of dust are given off every day ; that a sin-gle packet of needles loses 5 pounds on the grindstone. Dr. Hall, of the Sheffield Hospital, says that the expectation oflife for a grinder at 21 is but 14 years. Stone-cutters are more out of doors, and have a little greater va-riety of exercise, but in the nature of things they cannot be healthyor long-lived. In Massachusetts they live to be about 46 years Shoemakers, tailors, jewellers, engravers, labor many hours incramped positions, breathing most unwholesome air, with but littleactive exercise of any kind. The shoemakers in Eastern Massachusetts usually take no painsto ventilate their shops, but work blindly on, 12 or 15 hours a day,around hot stoves, and in crowded rooms. The result is seen intheir wan, sallow features, hollow chests, and sunken eyes. Inflam-matory diseases do not attack them as readily as they do butchers,teamsters, and outdoor laborers, for the reason that their blood isusually thin and watery, and they have little superfluous adiposetissue which a fever can feed on and consume. The same is true ofall who are employed in unhealthy, sedentary occupations indoors. In the large shoe manufactories, where the rooms are more spa-cious, and arran
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