On the decrease of disease effected by the progress of civilisation / by C.F.H. Marx, M.D. ... and R. Willis, M.D.

  • Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx
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1844
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    pany a supply of that indispensable element, pure as when it came from the well, and almost ad lihitum, through the whole course of even the longest voyage. The health of the navy has made truly wonderful progress within the last half century*. The special scientific study of the diseases of artizans and labourers, in laying open the often hid- den sources of their sufferings, has, at the same time, exposed the ways and means of removing them, or rendering them nugatoryf. The physician and philosopher working hand in hand here, good fruits have certainly not been wanting. The draught furnace, as a means of ventilating mines, and the safety-lamp of Davy, have already saved lives innu- merable. Undertakings which, in former times, had all to be accomplished by the labour of men's bodies, and often proved highly detrimental to health, are now, for the most part, performed by machinery^. * Vide Blane, Comparative Health of the British Navy, from the year 1790 to 1814, in his Select Disserts.; and the Report on the Health, &c. of the Navy, by Dr. Wilson. t See the work of Rammazzini on the Diseases of Artificers, translated into French by Patissier, and into German, with additions, by Schlegel; also, Adelman, on the same subject, Wiirzburg, 1803 ; Fuchs on the Influence of Trades, &c. on Health, in Hecker's New Annals; [Turner Thackrah on the Effects of the principal Arts, Trades, and Professions, on Health and Longevity, 8vo. London, 1831 ; and Dr. Calvert Holland on Diseases of the Lungs from Mechanical Causes, 8vo. Lond. 1844.—Eng Ed.] X Ruptures are relatively much more fi-equent among the labouring than among the other classes of society. In Wiirtem- berg it has been estimated that there are 30,000 persons affected with rupture. Riecke, p. 47.
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