Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-05


Those persons who are engaged in out-of-
door occupations, as rule, breathe pure
air and have plenty of muscular exercise
They are usually robust and brawny, and
the average duration of their lives is long:
but, being exposed TO alterations Of heat
and cold, TO winds rain and snow, they are
liable TO acute pulmonary affections and
rheumatism. Boat-men and fishermen are
quite subject TO chronic bronchial catarrh
The latter are said to suffer greatly from
paneris Of the right index finger due to the
rubbing Of the line.
Farmers and those occupied in agricult-
ural pursuits, says the Boston Globe, are
often attacked with catarrh and pneumo-
MIA; among the elderly and aged ones
chronic rheumatism prevails The life of
an independent farmer Is 80 free from anx-
iety and so healthful in its conditions that
II IL were not for the poorness OF food set
forth on most farmers tables, their lives
would be much longer and moro comforta-
BILE than they are. But in most farm
houses the diet is very much restricted,
the meat consisting Of plenty OF salt pork.
More pitiful wrecks of women, by reason of
hard work and poor food, than some Of the
farmers wives Of New England il would be
hard TO lind.
Laborers furnish a large number Of
There are occupations in which persons
arc exposed 10 extreme artificial heat, where
the atmosphere Of the work room is neces-
sarily kept at high temperature, and
where the ventilation is always poor; for a
rapid change in the air would call for an in
creased consumption Of fuel. Whether the
high temperature or the bad air be the
cause, IL is certain that those working I'M
der those conditions are generally sickly,
and their power Of resisting disease is much
reduced. Copious Precipitation has great
deal 10 do, no doubt, with the low state of
their vitality, and the sudden changes OF
temperature which they undergo after leav-
ing Of work and gong outdoors, render
them liable TO catarrhal trouble, both pull
monary and gastric intestinal. They are
good subjects for rheumatism and Bright's
disease.
Brickmakers are generally robust men
Those who press the clay into mods by
hand suffer painful crepitation Of the ten
dons Of the wrist. They are also exposed
TO the smoke and heat from the lime klns,
which produce disease.
Bakers and cooks are exposed to extreme
heat, and nearly always in badly ventilated
and damp places. The former work al
night, and their pale, puffy faces are very
characteristic. Both are subject TO rheu-
matism and varicose veins. The heat of
the fire and the irritating substances in
which they work produce eruptions Of the
skin on the hands and arms and acute in
Examinations on the face. OF the two trades,
that OF the baker is the most unhealthy.
The hands Of bakers are generally large and
powerful because of the muscular exertion
used ia kpeeding dough.
Charcoal burners are exposed to o tenn
perature varying from 105 to 112 degrees
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work is done IN the open air.
Blacksmiths are strong and healthy meu,
partly because only robust men could en-
dure the hard work Of this trade, and partly
because constant muscular exercise tends
TO increase the natural vigor of those who
adopt it.. But the extreme exertion and ex-
posture TO the heal of the forge, the great
perspiration and sudden change OF temper
ature, are many sources Of peril to the
health; and it is the universal opinion OF
writers on hygiene that they age very
quickly. The light and heat from the forge,
as well as the white-hot metal, produce
many diseases Of the eyes. Blacksmiths
are also said to suffer greatly from head
aches and catarrh. The sudden change OF
temperature naturally produce acute and
chronic rheumatism. 1-s-
Engineers and sto1ers on railroads, in
steamships and attending stationary en-.
gines, are also exposed TO great heat. On
steamers, where their quarters are very
small, they arc a most unhealthy class oil
men. This is especially true Of the stolers
They are always pale, subject to catarrh
rheumatism and pneumonia, and frequently
die of phthisis.
Many writers describe peculiar affection
which attacks men who clean out the boilers
OF steam engines. They enter by a man
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faces, lips blue, VEINS swollen, interrupted
respiration and the heartbeat very percep
tible. There is a peculiar whiteness AROUND
the lips, as if they had been touched will
nitrate Of silver They are often sick fo
days after their work, and suffer greatly
These workmen are liable to serious acci
dents from bursting boilers, breaking
shafts, etc.
The men who work at large FORCES, iron
puddiGrs an glass-blowers are also expose,
to intense heat. Hirt states that iron-pud
dlers work from eight to ten hours in al
OF a temperature Of one hundred an,
thirty degrees Fahrenheit. Such work
men are constantly perspiring pre-
fusely and drink enormous quantities o
water to make up for their loss They ar
subject to all the diseases incident to sue
exposure and sudden changes Of tempera
ture, viz: bronchitis, pneumonia, rheHma
tism and diarrhoea. They also suffer fro1
disease Of the eyes, the effect Of too vivi
light; while the heat produces many ski
eruptions.
Glass blowers take mass Of molten glas
from the furnace on the end OF tube an,
blow into IL while il is soft. AS the lunl
capacity of one man is insufficient for To
purpose, two, three or four stand together
and the tube is passed quickly from one I
2nnafiuono tho ap1 ~ n tr1A an
rough, so the men suffer from cracking Q
the lips. Each man should have his ow
mouthpiece to insert quickly into the con
mon tube, but many Of the workers dislik
this, and so leave themselves able to catcl
ing diseases from one another. The yioleu
effort of blowing tends TO produce emph,
sema and heart disease.
Dyers, being exposed to wet and n col
slant temperature of one hundred degree
Fahrenheit, are subject to catarrhs an
rheumatism. The fluids in which the
hands are immersed produce SKIN eruption
and ulcerations of the hands and fingers,
Laundresses suffor from exposure TO e.
treme heat, and are as a rule an9mi
Vernois has noticed an habitual Taxation
the left thumb backward, as result of il
constant use in holding clothes firmly {
the ironing board. According TO Lardle
all the fingers of the left hand can be bel
backward TO a remarkable extent.
,e - Military Pyrotechny.
In military pyrotechny many varieties
hollow balls arc made, differing in purpo'
from bomb-shells, but, like them, filed wit
ignitible composition. They are used eith'
10 give light, to produce very deni
smoke or to diffuse a suffocatIng Odo
aud so are called light-balls, smoke balls
stink-balls. The Chinese excel in the
compositions.
1t Is n HOwling Success.
The Cornell School of Journalism appea
to be success One young man who b
taken a course Of lectures there says he
NOW fnllv convinced that he could ney