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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    watches, in thoughtless happiness, over her sleeping ' idol, may read in that little open mouth the certain index to her future sorrows. It has already been said that man is an ‘ open- mouthed animal,’ and also shown that he is only so by habit, and not by Nature ; and that the most striking difference which is found to exist between Mankind in Savage and Civil states, consists in that habit and its consequences, to be found in their relative sanitary con- ditions. The American Savage often s?niles, but seldom