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

  • George Catlin
Date:
1878
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

    103/114 (page 95)
    By these we see that the first thing that is taught to infants in the civilized world is to sleep with the mouth open! and in the significant traits of this (otherwise) handsome young man, we see the lasting and pitiful re- sults of it. Fed and nurtured in kindness, and having 7* open mouth, which she ventures not to close, for fear of waking it: and if consigned to the nurse, the same thing is done with the bottle.