_Witness._ “I never saw or heard of any peculiar eruption on the skin of the tailors, though they perhaps do not attend sufficiently to personal cleanliness. The dye of cloth is sometimes bad, but I never observed any effects from it.” _M. Patissier._ “Tailors are apt to prick themselves with their needles, and these wounds often bring on festerings.” _Witness._ “That is certainly the case; the needle may carry with it some of the dye, and the festering may also be occasioned by the bad state of the body.” _M. Patissier._ “They almost all have decayed teeth, which are destroyed by the habit of biting their thread with them. It is very rare to see a tailor of advanced age with any front teeth.” _Witness._ “That is certainly so: they have many of them bad teeth, but I have not noticed any deficiency of the front teeth.” _M. Patissier._ “Their sight is soon enfeebled by the fine work which they have to execute, often at night by the light of candles. When they work in the evening at open windows, they are liable to be affected by earache, tooth-ache, cold in the head, and sore eyes.” _Witness._ “That is very correct with respect to the tailors in town, but it is not noticed so much with tailors in the country.” _M. Patissier._ “The sedentary life which they lead produces heavy, soft flesh, that has no firmness; they generally are thin in body, legs are spare and feeble, and their complexion rather jaundiced.” _Witness._ “Almost all this will be found to be the effect of habits that have nothing to do with the trade.” _M. Patissier._ “Tailors ought to walk in the open air every evening when their work will admit of it, rub their limbs well with flannel, abstain from all food difficult of digestion, avoid all excesses, and generally every kind of debauchery.” _Witness._ “The men when they leave their shop-boards do not begin rubbing their legs, and do not appear to feel the least want of it. The appetites of men working in shops being bad, they do commonly take food that is easy of digestion, as they cannot do with the coarser food. When a tailor comes from the country he will eat a twopenny loaf and take a pint of coffee for breakfast; but after three or four months working in the close shop getting exhausted, then taking beer and then spirits, his appetite fails him, and I have seen him eat only a small slice of bread and butter, and take half a pint of coffee for breakfast, and his appetite generally fails him. The young men on going back to their work in the country, generally recover their appetites unless disease has taken such root that they cannot recover.”