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 . A CARPENTER. Calkers and ship-carpenters are also comparatively vigorous, andlive a comfortable length of years. Calkers are obliged to laborin a confined position, and the mere exercise of their trade is notstimulating to the mind, nor calculated to develop the whole physi-cal man. That their average longevity is good is due to the pareair they breathe, more than to any other Coopers, carriage and clockmalcers,
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 . A CARPENTER. Calkers and ship-carpenters are also comparatively vigorous, andlive a comfortable length of years. Calkers are obliged to laborin a confined position, and the mere exercise of their trade is notstimulating to the mind, nor calculated to develop the whole physi-cal man. That their average longevity is good is due to the pareair they breathe, more than to any other Coopers, carriage and clockmalcers, and wheelwrights are allquite healthful and have a good expectation of life, and for the samereasons that apply to the carpenters and joiners. The journeyman maybecome an architect, provided he be able and willing to climb therounds of the ladder, one by one. These considerations act as astimulus to those mechanics who are not dead to all ambition, and INFLUENCE OF THE OCCUPATIONS ON HEALTH. 357 impel to active thought and strong exertion. In those callingswhere the chances of promotion are distant and cloudy, we shallsee that men become desperate and annualized, while in the sameproportion their life-expectation diminishes. Grocers are said to be troubled with a kind of itch, caused by theirritation of sugar and other substances they handle. But althoughthis affection is disagreeable, it is neither dangerous nor fatal. Theirlife is active, and allows of a wide range of intelligence and energy ;while sluggish dotards may exist by the occupation, it
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