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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    mouth and lungs, during his sleep, are open receptacles for all the malaria (and changes of temperature) of the atmosphere that may beset and encompass him. I have lived long enough, and observed enough, to become fully convinced of the unnecessary and prema- ture mortality in civilized communities, resulting from the pernicious habit above described; and under the conviction that its most efficient remedy is in the cradle, if I had a million of dollars to give, to do the best charity I could with it, I would invest it in four millions of these little books, and bequeath them to the mothers of the poor, and the rich, of all countries. I would not get a monument or a statue, nor a medal; but I would make sure of that which would be much better—self-credit for having bequeathed to posterity that which has a much greater value than money. PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND HANSON LONDON AND EDINBURGH