IS YOURS A TIRED NOSE?

Grey River Argus, 11 June 1904, Page 3 (Supplement)

IS YOURS A TIRED NOSE?

The sense of smell is weakened when ceaselessly exposed to powerful odours. Those engaged in offensive trades become unconscious of their loathsomeness. Snuff -makers must nonchalantly pursue their work in atmosphere so permeated with that -article that the non- . habituated person cannot breatheit for a minute without painful irritation of nose, eyes, throat, and mouth, sneezing . and the like resulting. The tea-taster's loss of his sensitiveness of palate to such an extent that, sooner or later he .must inevitably leave . hia business is witness to the oonso- . quences of long-continued use of the. tasting faculty. The skin shows one of the commonest forms of occupation, trade marks. Harpists and guitar players show,callosities of the fingers. Horny thickening of the skin from handling heavy imple-. nients is common <on the palm of day labourers. Laundresses, dyers, and bleachers have fhe .same, in combination with blisters, thickened and softened skin. Porters have shoulder knots. " "Housemaids' knees" mean blisters from long: pressure. Miners have swellings of knees and hips. . ■