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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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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 ...
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 ...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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