Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... disease to which the preceding class is subjected. They reBide either in the country or in the more healthful parts of the city, in large and comfortable houses; eat, as a general rule, food of a more wholesome character; are confined for comparatively few hours to the counting-room; and occasionally Qur Grandmothers. 123 give rjsuv, .' a little recreation. Bnt the way in which most busiiiese vav take their meals is highly injurious. At one or two o'aJoik they bolt in hot haste, at an eating-house, what passe for A lunch, and then dine at five or six o'clock, taking a heavy meal at an hour when, according to the laws of health, only a rery light one is admissible. But of the canoes of ill-health and premature old age among merchants, anxiety of mind is the most frequent and powerful. They live in a state of unnatural excitement; and while their muscles waste for want of action, their nerves are worn out by excess of action. A hurried gait and care-worn features are among the signs of this over-stimulated life. With a favorable temperament and constant success in business, however, merchants are sometimes remarkably healthy and long-lived. "The physical evils of commercial life," Thackrah says, i; would be considerably reduced if men reflected that the success of business may be prevented by the very means used to promote it. Excessive application or anxiety, by disordering the animal economy, weaken the mental powers. Our opinions a. e affected by the states of the body and our judgment often pi rverted. If a clear head be required in commercial transactions, a healthy state of the body is of the first importance, and a healthy body is incompatible with excessive application of mind--with the want of exercise and fresh...
