The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-06-16
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DISEASES OF TRADES.
RESULTS OF CONTINUED OCCUPA-
TON OF MEN WHO WORK.

1t Appears That Each Kind of Employ
ment Has Its Peculiar Ailment-Both
Physical and Mental Workers Fall I'm
der the R"le- Politicians Die Early.
1t is well known that there are a
fumber Of dangerous trades which give
use to serious diseases; but, as a matter
of fact, almost every occupation has
some ailment peculiar to itself. A doc
Tor can always tell if his patient is a
feker, for instance, by the state of his
Ieeth. The -four dust collects on the
teeth, becomes acid and gives rise to a
special kind Of decay. Bakers, owing to
their irregular life, sleeping in the day
and working at night, and because of the
bot air ard dust, are great victims to
consumption. Blacksmiths, strong as
they are, very often suffer from paraly-
SIS Of the whole right side from the ron
tinuous shock of hammering, and their
eyes become weak from the glare of the
lire. Athletes, strange to say, do not, as a
rule, enjoy long life. Professional boxers,
Wrestlers, gymnasts, cyclists, are short
lived and suffer from enlargement of
the heart and diseases of the lungs.
Boilermakers get deaf from the contin-
ual loud noise. Brewers and brewers
drivers drink beer in such large quanti-
ties that they ruin their livers and gen.
orally die young. Bricklayers and plas-
terers are very healthy, and they are
said to resemble asses i'll never dying.
Butchers are very strong and healthy,
but they suffer in health through eating
little pieces Of raw meat. Cabmen are
noted for ''nipping, " and they endure
the natural consequences. The cold also
affects their faces to such a degree that
the muscles of the face become frequent
ly paralyZed.
Carpenters and cabinet makers are
afflicted with varicose veins in the legs,
and the action of the shoulder in saving
and planning produces a diseased condi-
tion of the large artery that runs from
the heart to the arm, SO that there is
not a carpenter living, a doctor says, in
whom a curious noise may not be heard
by applying the ear to that blood YES
sci. Hardly a single china scourer lives
to old age without becoming asthmatic.
Clergyman's sore throat is of course
well known. 1t is said by some to re-
suit from having the mouth open so fire.
quently, the air going in that way and
drying the throat, Others say it is caused
by the clerical collar. And others still
say it results from the fact that the
clergyman breaches from a pulpit and
has to bend his head downward-for
barristers, who talk quite as much, do
not suffer as much as clergymen, Being
ON the same level as their hearers.
Miners, from working in the dark,
become very irritable. Their eyes get
weak, and their lungs become quite
black-miners' lung. Cooks, particular
ly male cooks working in hotels, clubs
ually tasting rich food, and both male
and female cooks get varicose veins and
fat feet from long standing as well as
the we'll known ache of the face from
the heat and dirt. Coopers have a lump
OH the knee, which is really a little bag
of fluid put there by nature to protect
the knee from the injurious effects OF
pressing it against the barrel. Divers
hearts become distended from holding
their breath.
Domestic servants are remarkable fol-
suffering from typhoid fever. House
maids are frequently afflicted with pow
erty of blood from drinking tea and
running up stairs. D~ressmakers' long
hours and confinement result in con
sumption very often, but more often Ill
indigestion, poverty of blood and inn
paired eyesight. The fumes of nitric
acid make goldsmiths' eyes sore, and
they get ramps in their fingers from
catching small screws. Nearly all the
human beings who suffer from that
awful disease, CHAMBERS, are grooms.
India rubber workers have very bad
headaches and great mental depression.
Painters are poisoned by the lead they
use so much, and all their muscles, but
especially their wrist muscles, locome
very weak. Photographers get poisoned
by cyanide of potassium. The dust that
enters the lungs Of potters when they
are sitting clay interiors; so much with
their breathing that "potter's asthma
is a well known disease. Compositors
get cracks and assures in the lips and
small tumors in their mouths from the
habit Of putting type in tie mouth, and
consumption attacks them frequently
because of the STOPPING posture and the
confined, sedentary life. Politicians are
greatest sufferers of all. the constant
dram drinking giving them indigestion,
iaundice and nervous diseases, killing
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