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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![you can distinctly recollect it, the perfect success that I met with in my own case, even at a far more advanced age, and consequently the habit more difficult to correct; and resolve at every moment of your waking hours (except when it is necessary to open them) to keep your lips and teeth firmly pressed together; and your teeth, at all events, under any and every emotion, of pain or of pleasure, of fear, of surprise, or admiration; and from a continual habit of this sort, which will prepare you to meet more calmly and coolly the usual excitements of life, you will find it ex- tending through your sleeping hours, if you will close your lips and your eyes in the fixed deter- mination, and effectually correcting or preventing the disgusting and dangerous habit of sleeping with the mouth open. ]^ot only manly beauty is produced, and manly firmness of character expressed, by a ■habitual compression of the lips and teeth, but courage, steadiness of the nerves, coolness, and power, are the infallible results. Men who have been jostled about amongst the vicissitudes of a long life, amidst their fellow- men, will have observed that all nervousness com- mences in the mouth. Men who lack the courage to meet their fellow-men in physical combat, are afraid, not of their enemy, nor from a conviction of their own inferiority, but from the disarming](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21045495_0095.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
