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In 1875 a man named George Vasey published a book on 'The Philosophy of Laughter and Smiling.' He mounted a whole-hearted assault on the moral and physiological evils of laughter, but was more complimentary about smiling.
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The first two pages of Chapter XV provide a good insight into George Vasey's thoughts about laughter..
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Vasey was particularly damning about mothers and nurses who tickled their children and thereby induced them into the injurious - and sometimes FATAL - habit of laughing.
