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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    APPENDIX. Appendices are allowed in all books, and in a work like this, aiming to promote the good looks and the life of man, they will surely be acceptable to the reader who has looked through, and taken an interest in, the fore- going pages. The original design of this little work having been an issue in a brochure form, a portion of the original matter prepared was left out, to limit its intended dimensions: but the numerous editorial com- ments upon its importance to mankind, both in England, the United States, and on the Continent, have suggested a revised edition, which authorizes the addi- tion of the following matter. In the foregoing pages, the Indian’s knowledge of the importance of establishing in infancy a habit of sleeping with the mouth shut, and the ignorance of it (or at all events the inattention to it) in civilized societies, and the deplorable consequences flowing from its neglect, have been emphatically treated and illus- trated, yet there are modes and causes of the abominable 7