The Effects of the Principal Arts, Trades, and Professions, and of Civic States and Habits of Living, on Health and Longevity; With a Particular Refer (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 edition. Excerpt: ...to resume the employment of silvering had no effect; but he has since, I understand, been obliged to relinquish it. P. Nash, set. twenty, of nervous temperament, commenced silvering six months ago, the trembling came on three days after he began to work, and his mouth was sore in six days; and he has continued to suffer, more or less, up to the present time. 14th March, 1831: The speech greatly impeded; the limbs totter when he attempts to stand or walk, which he accomplishes very slowly and with great difficulty, an infirm step, and awkward gait; he is unable to convey any substance to the mouth, in consequence of the severity of the tremors; slight subsultus Water-gilders, men who coat silver or other metal with an amalgam of gold and quicksilver, are exposed to the same poison as the silverers of mirrors. They diminish its effects, however, when employed on small work, by interposing glass between the mouth and the materials; and when engaged on larger articles, by affixing to the mouth and nose a kind of proboscis, which hanging down, opens at a distance from the source of the mercurial fumes. Notwithstanding these contrivances, and every attention paid to ventilation, the art cannot be closely pursued without the induction of serious disorder. tendinum, confined the upper extremities; the tongue quivers, gums slightly tender; pulse strong, rather quick; appetite diminished; sleep disturbed; body wasted; he complains as if a feeling oppressed like a load across the lower part of the chest; or as if a substance lay at the bottom of the lungs, as he expresses himself, which he conceived to have been drawn in by inspiration; the breathing was quick, accompanied with strictured feeling and cough. He was nearly thrown from a bath by the violence...