Shut your mouth and save your life / by George Catlin.

  • George Catlin
Date:
1875
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Shut your mouth and save your life / by George Catlin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    exemption from, and amongst the civilized communities for the causes of their subjection to, so great a calamity; and this I believe I have discovered, commencing in the cradle, and accompanying civilized mankind through the painful gauntlet of life to the grave: and in possess- ion of this information, when I look into th.e habits of such communities, and see the operations of this cause, and its lamentable effects, I am not in the least aston- ished at the frightful results which the lists of mortality show; but it is matter of surprise to me that they are not even more lamentable, and that Nature can success- fully battle so long as she does, against the abuses with which she often has to contend. This cause I believe to be the simple neglect to secure the vital and intended advantages to be derived from quiet and natural sleep ; the great physician and restorer of mankind, both Savage and Civil, as well as of the Brute creations. Man’s cares and fatigues of tide day become a daily disease, for which quiet sleep is the cure ; and the All- wise Creator has so constructed him that his breathing lungs support him through that sleep, like a perfect machine, regulating the digestion of the stomach and the circulation of the blood, and carrying repose and rest to the utmost extremity of every limb ; and for the protection and healthy working of this machine through the hours of repose, He has formed him with nostrils