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 . nd 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 callingswhe
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 . nd 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 yet affordsscope for the highest business abilities. They die at A BLACKSMITH. Blacksmiths live long, and are not subject to any peculiar dis-ease. Of more than 1,000 in Massachusetts, the average age While their work is hard, it admits of not a little breathe good air and observe regular hours of labor. Thecinders, smoke, and heat are injurious to the eyes, and give rise tochronic inflammations, bu t have no marked effect on the general health. Millers do not seem to be injured by the dust of flour and mealthey continually breathe, although Thackrah distinctly asserts thatstarch and farina manufacturers are more than ordinarily subject tobronchial and pulmonary disorders. Their occupation is in all otherrespects healthful and elevating, and they may not improperlybe classed as manufacturers. The average age of 186 in Massachu-setts was We now c
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