Breweries and tanneries and printing-ink factories confer
exemption from tuberculosis, and employees in turpentine
factories never have rheumatism. Copper-mining excludes the
possibility of typhoid among the workers.
Shepherds enjoy remarkable health. The odd odor of sheep appears
to exercise some influence tending to the prevention of disease.
Sheep are especially good for whooping-cough, so that in a sheep
country, when a child is taken down with that malady, it is the
custom for the mother to put it among the sheep to play. The
next day, it is said, the child will be well.
Men and women working in lavender, whether gathering or
distilling it, are said never to suffer from neuralgia or
nervous headache. Lavender, moreover, is as good as a sea voyage
for giving tone to the system. Persons suffering from nervous
breakdown frequently give their services gratis to lavender
plants, in order that they may build up their vitality.
Salt-miners can wear summer clothes in blizzard weather without
fear of catching cold, for colds are unknown among these
workers.--_Harper’s Weekly_.
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=Disease Traveling=--See EVIL, VIRULENCY OF.
=Disguise of Temptation=--See IMAGINATION, LURE OF.