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 . rsal than now ; and the man of business can-not fail to be inspired by the hope of the bright rewards of his oc-cupation, though at times he may be sickened with its cares anduncertainties. But he is the victim first prostrated by the financialstorms which at irregular periods sweep over the land, paralyzing,for the time, the mighty arm of trade. We find business disasters arevery frequently the exciting causes of insan
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 . rsal than now ; and the man of business can-not fail to be inspired by the hope of the bright rewards of his oc-cupation, though at times he may be sickened with its cares anduncertainties. But he is the victim first prostrated by the financialstorms which at irregular periods sweep over the land, paralyzing,for the time, the mighty arm of trade. We find business disasters arevery frequently the exciting causes of insanity. But in spite of all drawbacks attendant on business life, mer-chants are usually healthy, and their average longevity, thoughbelow the standard of clergymen, lawyers, or physicians, is greaterthan that of artisans and laborers. 350 HYGIENE, OR THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH. Iii the table of Dr. Jarvis, their average age is ; in thereport of Massachusetts, covering twenty-three and more years, itis ; in Rhode Island it is , while manufacturers are putdown at ; in Boston, The average of all (merchants,financiers, and capitalists) is AN ARTIST. Artists and Musicians, as a class, only cultivate the peculiargifts they enjoy, ignoring oftentimes the higher intellectual andmoral endowments. Whatever in art or music is ennobling, en-larging to mind and soul, serving to make man more intellectual,more spiritual, and more catholic in feeling, must be conducive tohealth and longevity; but the great body of musicians in this coun-try, at least, are simply men of special aptitudes, and are oftentimesvery irregular and dissipated in their lives. Tbe average age of 101artists in Massachusetts was As a class they are unbalancedmen, for the reasons just stated, and, if the statistics of insane asy-lums are worthy of credence, artists furnish a greater percentage ofinmates in proportion to the numbers in the profession than almostany other class. S
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