Health troubles of city life / [George Arieh Herschell].

  • Herschell, George, 1856-1914
Date:
1889
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Credit: Health troubles of city life / [George Arieh Herschell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    T is now recognised by all modern physicians that men whose lives are spent in a city, in the discharge of the active and absorbing duties of commercial life, are subject to a special class of diseases, which are the natural outcome of the as:e in wliicli we hh e. The wonderful facilities for communication l)etween distant parts that we possess at the j^resent day is not without its disadvantages. It is true, certainly, that business is facilitated, hut at an immense expenditure of nerve energy. The work which used in former times to he extended over weeks and months, is now com- pressed into days and hours. Nothing strikes a man, whose memory can carry him hack fifty years or so, more than the remarkable alteration