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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ed, it is stated that no fatal accident has occurred within the last twenty years, nor a case to require amputation. Still, however, we find that in various parts of the country serious or fatal injuries are occa- sionally produced by machinery. Scarcely one would occur, I believe, if proper care were taken to case the dangerous parts. Deformity, as an occasional result of manufactures, we must briefly notice. In this town and neighbour- hood we frequently see not very marked deformity,' but such a degree as to affect the figure and capability of motion. Many operatives have an absolute defect of exertion. The smaller muscles only are brought into full activity. The limbs, consequently, and espe- cially in the growing youth, take the form which is induced by the weight of the body and the posture required in the employ. The spine evidently suffers. Wanting the action of its extensor muscles, it falls into curves, and these, by altering more or less the situation of the upper extremities, produce decided deformity. Such is the natural result of defect of muscular exertion. But many operatives have an ex- cess. In some of these, however, this excess is par- tial. One set of muscles is immoderately and almost constantly exerted, while another wastes for want o2 7*