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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![middle of the night, when the fires have gone down and the air is at its coldest temperature — the system at rest, and the lungs the least able to withstand the shock. For those who have suffered with weakness of the lungs or other diseases of the chest, there needs no proof of this fact; and of those, if any, who are yet incredulous, it only requires that they should take a candle in their hand and look at their friends asleep and snoring ; or with the Nightmare (or without it), with their eyes shut and their mouths wide open — the very pictures of distress — of suffering, of Idiocy, and ])eath; when ]S^ature designed that they should be smil- ing in the soothing and invigorating forgetful-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21045495_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
