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 . anufacturersof white lead and friction matches die early, for reasons tooobvious to be stated. Railroad conductors average but thirty-eight, according to sta-tistics in Massachusetts ; but it is not just to infer that the occupa-tion is so very unhealthful, inasmuch as few remain in it after theybecome old. Yet, as brakemen, express and baggage men are alsolow down on the tables of longevity, the question arises whether
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 . anufacturersof white lead and friction matches die early, for reasons tooobvious to be stated. Railroad conductors average but thirty-eight, according to sta-tistics in Massachusetts ; but it is not just to infer that the occupa-tion is so very unhealthful, inasmuch as few remain in it after theybecome old. Yet, as brakemen, express and baggage men are alsolow down on the tables of longevity, the question arises whether con-tinuous car-riding is not, of itself, injurious—aside from the liability toaccident—Conductors, both on steam and horse railroads, frequentlycomplain of general malaise, which they attribute to the continualjarring of the body caused by the motion and sudden stopping ofthe cars. The average age of 169 railway agents and conductors inMassachusetts is Railway accidents, frequent and bloody asthey are, will not account for the mortality among employes onthe trains. Moreover, they breathe good air, and in nearly all otherrespects their life is not Potters ought to attain a fair longevity. Their occupationlabors under the same difficulty as that of many other artizans;it is toe narrow in its sphere, and demands very little intellectualactivity. 24 370 HYGIENE, OK THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH. Tobacconists do not seem to be as much injured by their callingas was at one time supposed. It has been thought that working intobacco had a bad effect on the health, but this theory is not sus-tained by sufficient evidence. It is now proved, both by general observation and by statistics,that tobacconists are, if anything, healthier and longer-lived thanthe average ot indoor operatives. In some of the rooms of tobaccomanufactories the workmen live in an atmosphere of tobacco dust,large quantities of which they must take into their lungs with eachrespiration ; and yet
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