Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16
TRADES THAT ARE "CURES."
lanyard Workers Never Have Con-
sumption, 1t Is Said.

Just as workers in certain trades are
more prone to certain diseases than
workers in other trades. so there are
some occupations which directly drive
disease away.
Consumption, for instance, is almost
unknown among the workers in tam
neries. Work in a lanyard is most
unpleasant till one gets accustomed to
It, owing to the horrible smell, but the
astringent properties of the tanbark
are amazingly good for the chest, and
render the lanyard man practically
proof, not only against consumption,
but the common cold.
Shepherds enjoy extraordinary good
health. It is not simply a matter of
the open air, the farmers do not show
a bill of health nearly as clean. Doc
tors have suggested that the reason
lies in the fact that the strong odor
of the sheep has an antiseptic influ-
ence. and kills off stray germs.
The odor is supposed to be particu-
larly good for whooping cough, and
in sheep rearing district mothers
often send their ailing children to play
among the sheep when who0ping
cough is about.
There is nothing whatever in the
popular belief that single visit to
gasworks is a cure for whooping
cough, except that, as doctors admit
men regularly employed in gasworls
are singularly free from diseases OF
the throat and chest.
Cases Of influenza, too, are very rare.
indeed, among gasworks hands, the
smell that pervades gasworks being
an admirable antiseptic.
There are two occupations which are
absolutely proof against colds One is
salt mining, the other is Arctic or Ant
arctic exploration. Colds are quite I'M
known among explorers in the frozen
world until they come within reach OF
| civilization again. Typhoid is getting
rarer, but even when it was very COM
mon, there has never been, a scien-
fist recently stated, known case of
this terrible disease among copper
miners. If there is rheumatism in
your family, it would be a good idea
to get your son a job in a turpentine
factory. rheumatism Is practically
unknown in such factories, and even
cases of acute rheumatism have been
known to recover completely on be-
ing transplanted to a turpentine at
mosphere.
If you are martyr to neuralgia or
headaches, you may envy the people
who prepare lavender for sale. Laven-
der indeed, is an excellent tonic for
anyone who is run down. Doctors fire.
| Quently recommend people suffering
from nervous breakdown to get a job
at gathering or distilling this fragrant
plant.
Towns with sealing-wax factories
have no difficulty in getting girl labor
cheap. Girls employed in the resin
department of sealing-wa factories
are probably the plumpest and heal
thiest class of girl workers. Anemia,
that disease from which the majority
of young women suffer more or less,
is unknown among them, except in
the case of those who take on the work
in order to cure their anemia. And in
these cases cures are certain and rap
id. Local doctors recommend the seal
ingwax cure so strongly that in many
cases the girls offer their services
free.
Medical advice also largely accounts
for the great number of girls who APP
ply for work in the chocolate-cream
department of sweet factories 1t is
not the taste that counts-that soon
pals. 1t is the peculiar odor that has
an effect and it is an amazing. one
in cases of anemia among the girls
employed there. The smell of print
ers ink is 4 curious one. and it has a
subtle medicinal effect. Men employ
ed in factories where it is made never
contract consumption, or so a medical
lecturer said recently. And in tropical
countries it is well-known fact that
printers always escape yellow fever,
however fiercely it may happen to be
raging in the Observation-Disclosures