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

  • George Catlin
Date:
1878
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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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    and on every Bed-post in the Universe, its meaning could not be mistaken; and if obeyed, its importance would soon be realized. my belief, that in any Town or City where either of those pestilences commences its ravages, if that portion of the inhabitants who are in the nightly habit of sleeping with their mouths open were to change their residence to the country, the infection would soon terminate, for want of subjects to exist upon. This opinion may be startling to many ; and if it be combated, all the better; for in such case the important experiment w'ih more likely be made. NOTE. From the observations, with their results, on board of a Mail Steamer, given in a former page, together with numerous others of a similar nature made whilst I have been in the midst of Yellow Fever and the Cholera in the West India Islands and South America; I conscientiously advance Authob. Rio Grande, Brazil, ] 860.