Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-11-04

The Rcia,Ien Of labor a. Ncr,oua NJ.
eases

Prof CoguotH III Martiis, in
showing that each occupation,
mechanical or intellectual, has its
peculiar nervous disease, draws
narrowing picture of the dangers
attending modern industrial life.
He begins by discussing the perils
to the nerves Of open air workers.
Lightning is one of these. 1t kills
twenty-five persons annually in
England, and seventy-one in
France, and leaves many Of those
who escape death with shattered
nerves for life. The malaral
fevers common to open air workers,
especially agricultural laborers,are
in many cases followed by severe
nervous disorders, and there is a
true rural paralysis resulting from
these fevers. Tetanus, the germ
of which thrives in swampy
ground, and sunstroke, are both
followed by distressing nervous
disturbances. Strong light pro-
duces a nervous affection of the
eye, known as now blindness, and
one form of the disturbance, to
which foundrymen are very sub
ject, makes the victim practically
blind toward sunset, and after
nightfall. Miners have painful
nervous affections of the eye, but
from opposite causes Their |
troubles are in great part caused |
by the rarefaction of the oxygen
in the air in which they work, aud !
are accompanied by strange |
illusions, such as the ap-
parent swaying back and forth
of objects in the field Of vision.
Miners working in mountain
shafts have the So called noun
tain sickness, accompanied by
headache, writhing of the brdy,
hesitancy of movement, heart
affections, nausea and vomiting,
sometimes followed by iusensibl-
lily, deIirlum and coma. Aero
nauts have the sumo trouble. Men
who work under b gh atmospheric
pressure are even in worse
plight. The voice becomes me-
tallic, utterance is difficult, and,
in the case of some, sounds i'm
possible; hearing is impaired,
muscles are knotted, smell and
taste are lost, and the laborer
handles his tools with difficulty. I
Seasickness is another nervous
affection that has always defied
the doctors, and no satisfactory
has ever been found for
it. Too much school work causes
epilepsy and st. VItus' dance in
children, besides impaired sight,
b headache, stammeriug, insomnia
and f"eting Authorizations. Under
the intense strain of modern cum
nercial life, the business mum be
comes victim to u"urHstheula and
oses the power of menta applca- {
ion. The speed ut which railway
are driven on certain /
ines utterly breaks down the
nerves of drivers in a short time.
The intense pleDccupatiOn and
great manual eXertion of the
,ianofrrte player often produces
Iaresis. Clarionet players have
'pasms of the tongue Sewing
Machine makers, telegraphers,
,igarma kers, buttonmakers and
others who have to maintain
high speed at their work, are sub
ect to nervous disturbances i'm
affecting the part of
The body especially under strain,
out extending to other parts,
Dentists leg is paralytic aliec-
ion of parts kept long under
pressure. Hammer paralysis
comes to the man who has one
lrm constantly playing a tool Of
he striking kind. The profes.
,ional bicyclist is subject to
shocking nervous maladies. He
S likely to suffer especially from
excessive weariness, loss of the
power of attention, of critical
tense of Judgment and of all the
nigh psychic manifestations.
Persons accustomed TO use the
voice great deal are subject to
spasms; watchmakers
and others who use strong magnl-
Tying glasses become near-sighted.
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