| Show THE HABIT AN AFFECTION THAT THE FEATURES FOR LIFE AND C CAUSES GRAVE DISEASES while a reporter was in the office of a well known physician of this city the latter asked him if he had noticed a young 0 u ng man who had just passed out the h re reporter porter answered that he had because he thought he had met tha young man in brooklyn a short time before that was probably another anoche r person suffering from the same trouble said the doctor this is a curious affliction it Is more common than is supposed occurs in infancy at manhood and at middle age and causes a great deal of sunn suffering ering yet it is a strange t thing mug that people in general do not seem to pay any attention to this affection when occurring in their own families in spite of the mannelin man manner nerin in which it dil distorts S torts borts the f face ac eungil until some act actual u al disease sets in and medical aid is necessary even physicians do not seem to reflect that this trouble may cause any one of a large larze number of oadis disi c ases eases affecting the system in general why continued the doctor you can tell one of these mouth breathers anywhere you see him from disease of the nose his lips are retracted his mouth is continually open his gums guru recede and his teeth protrude particularly those in the upper jaw the flesh that forms the lower part of the nostrils is shrunken the openings of the nostrils are arc diminished in size SUC there are wrinkles at the outer edges of the eyes and deep lines run from the nostrils and the angles of the mouth these all give the person either an expression of idiocy silliness or suffer X but the principal thin thing I 1 want to call your attention to said the doc tor is the necessity of parents and nurses watching children when they fall fail asleep and preventing them from breathing with their mouths open in F grown rown persons disease of the nose or throat luay luas lead to mouth breathing and the thu resulting distortion of the features but it is the other way with children they should be taught to use the mouth for eating and speaking peaking only and if they fall asleep with their mouths open the lips should d be gently pressed together thus many constitutional diseases such as spinal trouble pigeon breast and perhaps even rickets may be avoided not to speak of affections of the nose and throat it seems that medical men are arc not the only ones who have studied more or less lesa carefully that habit of mouth breathing george catlin the portrayer of american indan indian life and customs claimed in one of his hia nv works arks that it was a known fact that a man can inhale mephitic vapor through h his nose for a certain time in the bottom of a well without harm but if he opened his mouth to answer a ques tiou tion for call for help his lungs are closed and he tic expires catlin says bays 1 I have seen a poor indian woman in inthe the wilderness lowering her baby irom her breast and pressing its lips together as it fa falls falis ils lis asleep among peo people e he e found oun that a deafness ea ne dumbness rn ness spinal curvature and deaths fro from teething and diseases of the respiratory passages were nvere almost unknown lie ile attributes the exemption from these ailments so very common in civilized life solely to the habit of breathing through the nose ay iy Y I 1 world |
