...objects gradually enfeebles these organs.* The standing posture long maintained here, as well as in other occupations, tends to injure the digestive organs....appear to enjoy full health. Consumption is frequent ;t arising, however, rather I conceive, from the reduction of the general health by confinement, than...

...organs. The standing posture tends to injure the digestive organs. Some printers complain of disorder in the stomach and head ; and few appear to enjoy full health. Consumption is frequent. We scarcely find or hear of a compositor above the a;;e of fifty. lioukbinders are generally healthy....

...objects gradually enfeebles these organs. The standing posture, long maintained here, as well as in other occupations, tends to injure the digestive organs....complain of disorder of the stomach and head, and lew appear to enjoy full health. Consumption is frequent. We can scarcely find or hear of any compositor...

...are afflicted, such as of the stomach, head and eyes, and consumption, by the assertion that — " we can scarcely find or hear of any compositor above the age of 50." p. 38. Am. edit. One of the craft, after reading this, and seeing around him companions of 60, 70 and...

...enfeebles these organs. The standing posture, long maintained here, as well as in otheroccupations, tends to injure the digestive organs. Some printers...find or hear of any compositor above the age of 50. In many towns, printers are intemperate. Bookbinders, — a healthy employment. Carvers and gilders...

...to 69 years. Three- fourths of a century ago Thackrah, referring to English artisans, wrote that " we can scarcely find or hear of any compositor above the age of 50."* But the condition of the English compositor, and particularly of the London craftsman, has undergone...

...objects gradually enfeebles these organs. The standing posture, long maintained here, as well as in other occupations, tends to injure the digestive organs....find or hear of any compositor above the age of 50. In many towns, printers are intemperate. Bookbinders, — a healthy employment. Carvers and gilders...

...per cent, greater than among the other classes' (p. 404). Thackrah, in his brief notes, says : — ' We can scarcely find, or hear of any compositor above the age of fifty.' And Dr. Ogle's table of mean annual death-rates per 1000 living, shows those of printers, between...

...in his work on the Effects of Arts, Trades, and Professions, on Health anil Longevity, p. <13, says, "We can scarcely find or hear of any compositor above the age of 50." The facts contained in this table will be the means of correcting such errors as this. I may add that...