Shut your mouth / by George Catlin.

  • Catlin, George, 1796-1872.
Date:
1869
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Shut your mouth / by George Catlin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    soon afford them relief; and their first night of natural sleep will convince them of the importance of my advice. Man’s life (in a certain sense) may be said to ‘ be in his own hands/ his body is always closely invested by diseases and death. When awake, he is strong, and able to contend with and keep out his enemies ; but when he is asleep he is weak ; and if the front door of his house be then left open, thieves and robbers are sure to walk in. There is no harm' in my repeating that Mothers should be looked to as the first and principal correctors of this most destructive of human habits; and for the cases which escape their infant cares, or which com- mence in more advanced stages of life, I have pointed out the way in which every one may be his or her physician; and the united and simultaneous efforts of the Civilized World should also be exerted in the over- throw of a Monster so destructive to the good looks and life of man. Every physician should advise his patients, and every boarding school in existence, and every hos- pital, should have its surgeon or matron, and every regiment its officer, to make their nightly, and hourly, ‘ rounds,’ to force a stop to so unnatural, disgusting, and dangerous a habit. Under the working of such a system, mothers guarding and helping the helpless, schoolmasters their