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 . The average age of 441 in Massachusetts was Workingover bad manuscript, oftentimes by artificial light, makes diseasesof the eye very frequent among them. Bakers, cooks, and confectioners are said to be peculiarly liableto apoplexy, which is due to the fact that their heads are often ex-posed to sudden gushes of hot air, while in a stooping posture. Bythe Registrar-General of England, bakers are placed tenth in t
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 . The average age of 441 in Massachusetts was Workingover bad manuscript, oftentimes by artificial light, makes diseasesof the eye very frequent among them. Bakers, cooks, and confectioners are said to be peculiarly liableto apoplexy, which is due to the fact that their heads are often ex-posed to sudden gushes of hot air, while in a stooping posture. Bythe Registrar-General of England, bakers are placed tenth in theorder of longevity—only two classes, butchers and shop-tenders, beingbelow them. It has been supposed that the dust of flour may ope-rate injuriously, but if so why are millers so healthy and long-lived ? Miners and colliers, although living under ground and forced to. INFLUENCE OF THE OCCUPATIONS ON HEALTH. 365 breathe air not unfrequently poisonous, though liable to fatal acci-dents and explosions, seem to have a better expectation of life inEngland than either bakers, butchers, or beer-shop keepers. Painters and plumbers are liable to lead-colic, with its terribletrain of woes. Beginners in the painters trade almost invariablycomplain of headache and general malaise, and some are obliged toabandon the occupation. Even the smell of turpentine has on somea powerful stimulating effect on the kidneys, that cannot fail to beof injury. The average age of over 1,000 was about 46 years.
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