The effects 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.

Charles Thackrah

Date:: 1831

Credit: The effects 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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sine perturbatione,” ‘to :which Seneca repeatedly and justly refers,.as the greatest of temporal blessings. Having examined seriatim the principal employments of large towns, we may now offer a recapitulation or abstract of the effects of these employments on health. In the progress of our inquiries, we have repeatedly re- marked the errors of general opinion, and particularly in reference to certain agents considered as. highly injurious. I. In this summary we first notice the agents, which .our examination leads us to believe are comparatively harmless. ~ ]. The chief are wet, vapour, and changes.in the humidity of the local atmosphere. In pages 63—69 we have adduced proof that these agents, in temperate persons, produce little injury: 2. Neither have changes of temperature a marked effect in the production .of acute disorders. We refer to the state of dryhouse-men, stuff-pressers, glass-blowers, &c., pages 71—75. 3. The exhalations from vegetable decomposition we have not found injurious; but we had not .the opportunity of making observations .sufficient!y numerous and ‘correct, to warrant a decided opinion. .Starch-makers seem to suffer no,annoyance ; and certainly brush-makers are not injured bythe vapour of tar. } | 4. The;natural. odours of vegetables, manufactured. in this neighbourhood, with the exception of coffee, appear to be innoxious. . Tobacco-workers (I.am not including snuff-makers) do -not -sensibly suffer from the fumes of their material: ‘and the crushers of rape and mustard seem even benefited ‘by the odours, which these seeds exhale. 5. The influence of a change in the period of sleep is less than we should have expected. Wedo not find that millers, watchmen, and coachmen, are sensibly affected by night work.

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