The breath of life, or, Mal-respiration : and its effects upon the enjoyments & life of man (manu-graph) / by Geo. Catlin.

  • Catlin, George, 1796-1872.
Date:
1862
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The breath of life, or, Mal-respiration : and its effects upon the enjoyments & life of man (manu-graph) / by Geo. Catlin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    14- JYcl kciw. chief- of -the. Ttinnc haloes , in Iti's - Conjin ,1hc remn.cc/Lt of a n timer oil* and weti-li]ic, iribc , now semi-ciritixcd a nd rcditced , 'L ouvch'l di^etL arc not itaiAr near so healthy eta they were whcnJ'wa'i ciyoLcuo mmH . it wets i/icic ct very rare tllnio for cc woman +6 lose her child; now it is cc wry dijficult-thmo io raise them '!—whichhis wife cut elect — 'jincc our hxishands have fatten to drink so much -whiskey cuvhcikics are not so vtroiw fand t/LC greater portion of+hent die. : we can not keep than % alive —_ JT/ic c/«cf Continued JLwhuve no Mi ats-no &cafand&umh, and no hunchbacks —our women never die t'u chilclhirth ,aii_d they donated, low doctors to cctteiid them on Vuch occasioixs . J^e^n_saw chief of-the frees has /das, on ihe DUtsou ri , once cc powerful and wctvtiketrihe ,-tolcl melhcLT. he could recoiled whan-the children ofhi-itrihe were X'ery numerous unci very healthy, unci they had then nc idiots, no deaf dm nh.nor hunchhcccks; hutthcet the SmcdUpoyc and whishey hud killed aff-the nxcic y- wotricn., unci the children died trery fecrt.?Jly?7lother Suiclhe , - Wit;is very old ,<und my tittle so?i qlixcIi^ Self, all of whom are nowheforc you, arc cttUhcct arc left in-nxyh-ifttj and J'amthe chief.7 sfhe uhovc, which arc hut c< very few ofthe 7Ut_ ineroiu estimate* wh ich J'hcive acd/terccL,vrkcn compa reel with the Statistics ofprcmcdurc cleedhs and men ted and physical deformities in civilized Communis tic% form a contrast So striking, hetween the eanifary Conditions of the Two Jlctecs who cere horn the rcunc v cchosc terms of natural life arc intended tc he cyt.ia.1 a j plainly to show,-that throuoh -ihc vale of their exis- tence , in civilized Tluces,-there mxxsi- he Sonvc hidden Ccllcsc of disease not yet sufficiently appreciated, V-