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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![they endure perfectly well, and there is no reason why the opposite extreme should be practised in the civilized world, entailing so much misfortune and misery on mankind. It is a pity that, at the very starting-point of life, Man should be started wrong —that mothers should be under the erroneous belief that while their infants are awake they must be watched ; but asleep, they are doing well enough. Education is twofold, mental and physical; the latter of which alone, at this early stage, can be commenced ; and the mother should know that sleep, which is the great renovator and regulator of health, and, in fact, the food of life, should be enjoyed in the manner which ]!^ature has de- signed ; and therefore that her closest scrutiny and watchfulness, like that of the poor Indian woman, should guard her infant in those impor- tant hours, when the shooting germs of consti- tution are starting, on which are to depend the happiness or miserj^ of her offspring. It requires no more than common sense to perceive that Mankind, like all the Brute crea- tions, should close their mouths when they close their eyes in sleep, and breathe through their nostrils, which were evidently made for that purpose, instead of dropping the under jaw and drawing an over-draught of cold air directly on the lungs, through the mouth ; and that in the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21045495_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
