The Effects Of Arts, Trades, And Professions - And Of Civic States And Habits Of Living, On Health And Longevity: With Suggestions (1832) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tea-table phraseology, " catch their death of cold ?" The inhabitants of this country are brought up from childhood in the fear of taking cold. It is the bugbear of our youth; it haunts us through life. Few have any distinct ideas of the nature of this frigorific agency: few have fairly examined their experience: . and few indeed are aware of the fallacies of experience; scarcely any have made either direct experiment or close observation. Yet all speak with decision on the subject. Hence workmen, when interrogated on the effects of change of temperature in producing coughs and catarrhs, commonly reply from their prejudices, rather than their observation. " We must take cold: we are always in heats and cools." But on cross-questioning them, I have not been able to satisfy myself, that men subject to the greatest changes are especially liable to catarrhs and bronchial inflammation. We do not hear more coughs in the foundries, dry-houses, or press-shops, than in other places. The men, it is clear, are not particularly subject to consumption; and if the heat or transitions of their employ frequently excited bronchial inflammation, a pathologist would surely expect the prevalence of that fatal disease. Having thus examined the effects of the principal occupations of the labouring classes, we proceed to the second great class, ? II. Dealers. These are chiefly Shopkeepers, who live in a confined atmosphere, and whose employments are a compound of the active and sedentary, with generally, however, more of the latter than the former. The character of their occupation is modified by the articles in which they deal; but, with some slightexceptions, they are subjected to no deleterious effluvium. They are, however, much too confined. Standing behind the counter all day, or sitting in ...

General

Imprint:	Kessinger Publishing Co
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Charles Turner Thackrah
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	252
ISBN-13:	978-1-120-87666-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
LSN:	1-120-87666-4
Barcode:	9781120876669

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