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Identifier: 101485230.nlm.nih.gov
Title: The American practice condensed, or The family physician : being the scientific system of medicine ...
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Beach, W. (Wooster), 1794-1868 Beach, W. (Wooster), 1794-1868. American practice of medicine
Subjects: Medicine Therapeutics Materia Medica
Publisher: New York : Published and for sale by James M'Alister
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victims of a cruel superstition. The suffering and death produced inthis way are not to be compared with the misery and death arising fromcompression. Injuries to those bones which guard the heart and lungs arealmost as fatal as injuries to those which guard the brain. The breast-bonemay be made to press inward upon the heart in such a manner as to burstit: but more commonly the poor sufferer dies a slow and miserable death wornout by anxiety and oppression, fainting, palpitations, anxious breathings, quickand interrupted pulse, still more frequent faintings terminating- fatally. Some idea may be formed of the injurious habit of tight lacing, from the o-reatcontrast of the annexed figures. Fig. 1 shows the absurd appearance of a femalewith corsets, in which the vital parts are much compressed. Fig. 2 representsthe natural and healthy form, as designed by Nature. Fig. 3 is the waist in acompressed state. Fig. 4 the natural appearance of the waist. AND PROMOTING HEALTH AND LONGEVITY 75
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FlG. 1. UNNATURAL FORM. Fig. 2. natural foi;m

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