Dress-reform : a series of lectures delivered in Boston, on dress as it affects the health of women (1874)
Woolson, Abba Goold, 1838-1921 · Boston : Roberts · leaf 80
as unableto speak, the danger of death became imminent;but his situation was discovered in time, and hislife saved. I have been describing the consequence ofa complete suspension of respiration, which is 54 DRESS-REFORM. death in from two to five minutes. Has it oc-curred to you that tliere is one… … a dying rate ? The corset is the name of this in-strument of human torture. So far as I am ableto learn, no one takes to corsets naturally, and itis only after hours of suffering that one becomesable to endure them without pain, — I mean, ofcourse, if by good fortune one has lived to the…
Clothing and dress · Women -- Health and hygiene
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