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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![Besides the list of fatal diseases already given, and which I attribute chiefly to the pernicious habit which I have explained, there are other results affecting the senses, personal appearance, and the enjoyments of life, which, though not fatal, are themselves of sufficient importance to demand its correction; such as Curvature of the Spine, Idiocy, Deafness, IS^ightmare, Polypus in the ]N^ose, Malformation and premature Decay of the teeth. Toothache, Tic-douloureux, Rheuma- tism, Gout, and many others, to which the Brute creations are strangers, and to most of which the Savage Races are but little subject. By another reference to the Statistics of Civil- ized Societies, we find that in some, one-half per cent, are Idiots or Lunatics, one-third per cent, are Deaf and Dumb, one-half per cent, are Hunch- backs, and from three-fourths to one per cent, of other disabling diseases and deformities; all of which are almost unknown to the American JlSTative Races; affording a strong corroborative proof, if it were necessary, that such deficiencies and de- formities are the results of accidents or habits, and not the works of ]N^ature's hand. IN^ature produces no diseases, nor deformities; but the offspring of men and women whose systems are impaired by the habits which have been alluded to, are no doubt oftentimes ushered into the world with constitutional weaknesses and predilections](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21045495_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
