| Show 01 GREATEST DANGER TO HEALTH IS OVERWORK Hard flar work is more dangerous danger dauger- ous GUS to th the system l than dissipation dis dis- So S says fir pl Hutchinson on in an article on The Diseases of Civilization tion particularly tion particularly Bri Brights Bright's ht's Disease Disease in in the February Hamptons Hampton's l'-hu l' Magazine azine Dr Dl H Hutchinson tchi sou declares s that an thing about ut chronic arterial l ge geis is that wh while ile lar largely cly do to the prolonged general w wear wear ar and tear ear of of f life it it is rio y no to be greatly hastened ed and and ll may ny b be brought broughton on prematurely by three great main main causes First and commonest of I esc eec is overwork particularly particular the form forma of of prolonged prolong overstrain Men len e en- en J Jed jed ed in laborious o occupations cuI h II as lumberman porters Pk k laborers rs minners an and laborers t bf f all sorts sho show sho the highest p percentage 0 of i arter arterial ai decay at the ear earl earl- ages agea Twenty years ag ago 4 Iwas was supposed to be th the uliar plague of tl leisure e ses an and the tie sedentary o 0 ca but this was mere merel merely to the fact act that these they ses alone were studied wit wi with l 12 ca c care re to dis discover ov-er ov i ie ite it t e most of the other diss dis s of the rich the thc poor pOOl e c them just the thc same ann an aIH and andi a n i more lnore frequently only 3 cannot afford the luxury y diagnosis i and treatment floe Che next great reat cause o Oi of arterial decay is th thOtis the e Ions Otis ons or toxins of the differ differ- infectious diseases diseased In Ins In's a S 'S s of some three thousand d under tinder lift fifty Uny years o of oj dy taken in succession succession as the thc they y Jred red one of our gr grea great Hals and examined fo for fOJ nearly fort y ys y's cut ent alread already showed this thi s lige The whole number Je e c classified into three gre great grey t ups those who had worked worked d Id d with their muscles th those thos se seo e o recently had had one otIe o of 01 f or six six common infectious s eases typhoid eases typhoid syphilis et cetera cetera ate and se Ise who had used alcohol l l ly The results were illuminat- illuminat for of had bad eu- eu ed eel in u hard muscular labor labo r Fly sixty per pcr cent t showed shove d of f those wh who o had had ty typhoid phoil o or some fort forty pe per of those who had ha hud had d dills ilis ills some twenty pe per rd rde while of those who h ha had d alcohol freely some fifteen ent Sent showed this change chan erom e. e row rom rom this point of ot view uld appear that excess e etry try does more to short shorten shorten n nn n the thc majority of men 1 but the group I mall wall to base such radi radi- d a of upon Virtues Virtue s sometimes seem as dangerous s' s as vices if not indulged in with strict moderation To sum up Bright's Brights Disease Dis- Dis ease case and other renal dis disturbances t are probably ing some This is only bec because u e more more of us are livid living to be old enough so to sp speak al to have earned them I The chief causes of them a apart art from the necessary wear wea r and aud tear of life are muscular r overwork for long hours th the e attack of the x infectious dis diseases cases eases and the the- use of oJ alcohol all of which are perfectly preventable pre pre- le and aid in fact are bein being g rapidly prevented b by y industrial legislation b by sanitary improvements im inn the growth 1 of temperance and self re In other wor words s civilization civilization civili civili- civilization is curin curing and and will 1 continue to cure the diseases disease s it has helped to cause |
