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 . GLASS-BLOWERS. Founders and furnace-men are subject to rheumatic disorders,arid die before they are 45. Thackrah maintains that the suddentransitions from heat to cold to which these classes are liable have nonoticeable influence on the health. His statement needs to be consid-erably modified. While it is true that habit to a degree reconcilesthe system to such changes and irregularities, as, indeed, to almostall others
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 . GLASS-BLOWERS. Founders and furnace-men are subject to rheumatic disorders,arid die before they are 45. Thackrah maintains that the suddentransitions from heat to cold to which these classes are liable have nonoticeable influence on the health. His statement needs to be consid-erably modified. While it is true that habit to a degree reconcilesthe system to such changes and irregularities, as, indeed, to almostall others, it is also true that those who are much exposed to exces-sive heat, with sudden transitions to cold and wet, are more than or-dinarily afflicted with the pains and inflammations of than that, the experience of many surgeons establishes beyonda doubt the fact that the coal-heavers and firemen on ship-boardsend a much larger relative percentage to the sick-bay than do theseamen and FOOTDRYMEX. Those who work in an atmosphere the temperature of which 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
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