Shut your mouth and save your life / by George Catlin ; with 29 illustrations from drawings by the author.
- George Catlin
- Date:
- 1890
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Shut your mouth and save your life / by George Catlin ; with 29 illustrations from drawings by the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![nervous hesitation and vibration of the under jaw when suddenly called up from its habitual hang- ing position to perform its part in articulation. This singular -and most unfortunate impedi- ment in speech has been attributed to many causes, and some writers pretend to have traced it to physiological defects, making ]^ature to blame for it; but, like most of the diseases and deformities of mankind, it is undoubtedly the re- sult of habit, and what habit so likely to produce it as the one condemned in this little book, of al- lowing the under jaw to fall, and to be carried in a hanging position, to be raised by a jerk (in- stead of being lowered) in the effort to speak. In most cases of the fallen jaw, stuttering and other impediments and inelegancies in speech are the consequences; though, in some few cases, by a rigid practice, those defects have in a measure been overcome. With the handsome young man now under view, of 20 years, turn back to the illustration on page 47, and see the aspect he presents at the age of 50 (if he is fortunate enough to live so long). Stuttering need not be heard to be de- tected in this case, for it is readable in the lines and expressions of the face. I have lived a long life and communed freely with the world, on various parts of the globe, and 1 never met (to my recollection) a stuttering](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21045495_0113.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
