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Show DISEASES COME FROM TRADES' By William Allison Mayson, M. D. Every man who works for a long time at any one of scores of industrial trades is pretty nearly sure to contract, sooner or later, the bodily disease dis-ease that is connected with his occupation. Some of these maladies are mysterious, many are dangerous. dan-gerous. Bakers generally have bad teeth; the flour dust collects in their teeth, becomes acid, and gives rise to a special kind of decay. Bakers, too, owing to their irregular 1L -sleeping in the day and working at night and because of the hot air and dust they breathe, are great victims of consumption. Boilermakers lose their hearing from the continual con-tinual racket in which they have to labor. Those men who Avork around the breweries look strong and healthy, but the beer that they drink ruins their lives, and they generally die before be-fore reaching middle age. One of the peculiar diseases that is but temporary tem-porary in this effect, and to which a man is immune im-mune after having experienced it once, Is "brass founder's ague." Three-quarters of the new employees em-ployees of brass foundries experience it. They have severe chills and headache, cough a great deal, and then develop a high fever; the illness passes in a day or so. It Is caused by the in-halation in-halation of metallic dust or vapor of zinc or copper. cop-per. Blacksmiths suffer from paralysis of the entire right side, due to the continual shock of hammering, hammer-ing, and their eyes become weak from the glare of the fire. Professional cooks are also subject to impairment impair-ment of the eyesight; they have to open oven doors continually to see how whatever they are baking or roasting is progressing, and the out-rush out-rush of the heated vapor affects the eyes. The strong fumes of naphtha are a little less deadly than those of chloroform. "Naphtha intoxication" in-toxication" is peculiar to those employed in the manufacture of this product and those who use it largely in cleaning establishments and in rubber rub-ber factories. Furniture polishers can generally be picked out in a crowd on account of the eczema ec-zema which covers the hands, arms and face. This is supposed to be due to impure alcohol used in the polishes. |