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 . idlysystematized that they are obliged to do very little more thinkingthan the machines on which they are employed. It should be remembered, also, that a variety of muscular acti-vity is more conducive to health than mere routine, that calls intoplay but a single set of muscles. Active mechanics abroadlive to be Brickmakers live to be This is a very good occupation admits of a variety of toil
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 . idlysystematized that they are obliged to do very little more thinkingthan the machines on which they are employed. It should be remembered, also, that a variety of muscular acti-vity is more conducive to health than mere routine, that calls intoplay but a single set of muscles. Active mechanics abroadlive to be Brickmakers live to be This is a very good occupation admits of a variety of toil, and much of the timethey have the benefit of the sunlight. Carpenters attain the age of Their trade admits of avariety of toil. Some of the time they are outdoors, and then againthey labor in shops. Most of the time they are exposed to thesunlight. All of the principal muscles are called into exerciseat various times and in various combinations. 356 HYGIENE, OR THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH. The carpenter, breathing no noxious gases and no poisonous dust,cramped in no narrow position and imprisoned in no heated rooms,is, on the whole, the healthiest of 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 cause.
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