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 . 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 o
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 . 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 MASON OR BRICKLAYER. Masons and hrichlayers live to a fair age. Theirs is not, on thewhole, as healthy or as ennobling as that of carpenters and joiners,and does not call for as varied activity of the mind. Operatives are very unhealthy and short-lived. Working an ex-cessive number of hours, amid the fearful, confusing clatter of ma-chinery, in greasy, over-heated factories, and compelled to bolt downtheir meals in half the requisite time, we cannot wonder that indi-gestion and phthisis parch and shrivel their frames, and hurry themaway at the early age of thirty-eight. Observations in England andAmerica give about the same results. Nearly all operatives, male and female, are mere routinists, goingthrough their appointed toil with the blind regularity of the shaftsand looms. Draw-filing cast iron is a very injurious occupation. The dustis much more abundant, and the metallic particles much more mi-nute, than in the filing of wrought iron. The particles rise so copi-ously as to blacken
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