The effects of the principal arts, trades, and professions, and of civic states and habits of living, on health and longevity : with a particular reference to the trades and manufacturers of Leeds, and suggestions for the removal of many of the agents which produce diseases and shorten the duration of life / by C. Turner Thackrah.

  • Thackrah, Charles Turner, 1795-1833.
Date:
1831
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    dcner cannot be a bad subject. We may add, that a man addicted to pursuits like that, the various pur- suits I mean of natural knowledge, can scarcely be a bad man. A judicious parent would be far more anxious to give his children a taste for natural know- ledge, than for literature. They might gain neither present nor ultimate fame, but they would obtain that moderate and serene enjoyment, that tranquillitas animi, the animus sine perturbatione, (calmness of mind,) to which Seneca repeatedly and justly re- fers, as the greatest of temporal blessings. Having examined, seriatim, the principal employ- ments of large towns, we may now offer a recapitula- tion or abstract of the effects of these employments on health. In. the progress of our inquiries, we have repeated- ly remarked the errors of general opinion, and parti- cularly in reference to certain agents considered as highly injurious. I. In this summary we first notice the agents, which our examination leads us to believe are com- paratively harmless. 1. The chief are wet, vapour, and changes in the humidity of the local atmosphere. In pages 91—100 we have adduced proof that these agents, in tem- perate persons, produce little injury. n2