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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![but why do they not say, at the same time, that there are two modes of inhalation, by the nose and by the mouth; and inform the Mechanics and labourers of the wprld who are thus risking their lives, that there is safety to life in one way, and great danger in the other? If physicians forget to give you this ad\4ce, these suggestions, with with your own discretion, may be of service to you. The Savages have the advantage of moving about and sleeping in the open air; and Civilized Kaces have the advantages over the poor Indians of comfortable houses and beds, and bedrooms; and also of the most skilful physicians, and surgeons, and dentists; and still we are struck with the deplorable results in our society of some latent cause of diseases, which, I believe, has been too much overlooked and neglected. Have you not many times waked in the middle of the night, in great distress, with your mouths wide open, and so cold and dry that it took you a long time to moisten and shut them again? and did it occur to yoa at those moments that this was all the result of a careless habit, by which you were drawing an unnatural draught of cold air in every breath, directly on the lungs, instead of drawing it through the nostrils, which ]^ature has made for that especial purpose, giving it warmth,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21045495_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
