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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![cent expression of its repose during the hours of sleep; and from such impressions, I recollect, it was exceedingly difficult and painful to wean my boyish affections. To young people, who have the woi^ld before them to choose in, and to be chosen, next to the importance of life itself, and their future welfare, are the habits which are to disfigure and impair, or to beautify and protect that feature which, with man and with woman alike, is the most expressive and attractive of the face; and at the same time, the most subject to the influence of pleasing, or disagreeable, or disgusting habits. Good looks and other personal attractions are desirable, and licensed to all; and much more generally attainable than the world sujjpose, Avho take the various features and expressions which they see in the multitude as the works of liga- ture's hand. The natural mouth of man is alwa3^s an ex- pressive and agreeable feature; but the depar- tures from it, which are caused by the ]3redom- inance of different jjassions or tastes, or by the perfectly insipid and disgusting habit which has been explained, are anything but agreeable, and but little in harmony with the advance of his in- tellect. Open mouths during the night are sure to pro- duce open mouths during the day; the teeth pro-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21045495_0088.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
