THE EFFECTS SH.1831. OF THE PRINCIPAL ARTS, TRADES, AND PROFESSIONS, AND OF CIVIC STATES AND HABITS OF LIVING, ON HEALTH AND LONGEVITY: WITH A PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE TRADES AND MANUFACTURES OF LEEDS: AND SUGGESTIONS FOR THE REMOVAL OF MANY OF THE AGENTS, WHICH PRODUCE DISEASE, AND SHORTEN THE DURATION OF LIFE. By C. TURNER THACKRAH. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, & GREEN. LEEDS, BY J. BAINES & CO. 1831. 628. CONTENTS. 2. Operatives, whose employments are carried on in an atmosphere confined and impure..... 3. Operatives subjected to dust, odour, or gaseous (2.) To substances or odours apparently beneficial 33 (3.) To dust or vapour decidedly injurious...... 37 4. Operatives, whose skin is exposed to injurious agents 58 5. Operatives, who are exposed to wet and vapour...... 63 PAGE. IV. PROFESSIONAL MEN 1. Who have mental application conjoined or alternating with considerable exercise in the open air.......... 2. Persons, who have much mental application without adequate exercise of the body.... † Schools 3. Persons who live in a bad atmosphere, maintain one position most of the day, take little exercise, and are frequently under the excitement of ambition 97 93 ..112 .112 ...113 Subjects connected with physical education...... Abstract of the effects of different agents on Health...104 Accidents from Machinery... Deformity....... Intemperance Remedies suggested for the physical evils of our civil state Hints on the choice of an employment ..115 .122 THE EFFECTS, &c. MAN, in his several relations, is assuredly the most interesting subject for examination and reflection. His external form, his internal structure, the number and complexity of organs, their harmony and mutual support, the surprising power which restores injured parts, the organs which, connecting man with his fellows and the world, are the agents of social relation,these exhibit the first animal in the universe-the work of a Creator all-wise and benevolent. Though we cannot rival the agency of superior wisdom; though we can neither make man, nor improve his original organization; we may reduce his character, weaken his frame, and bring on him premature decay and death. It is one thing, indeed, to view this being, as God made him: it is another, to examine him in a state of moral and physical degradation. Pliny, in the affecting and powerful exordium to his chapter on Man, paints human miseries with a pencil of gall. He refers especially to the connate evils of our physical state, as contrasted with that of the brute. But had he lived in an age of physiological knowledge, he would rather have admired those structures and arrangements, which give man a decided superiority over the bulk of the animal creation, He afterwards refers to the intellectual and moral evils, which B |