The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals (1893)
Ecob, Helen Gilbert · New York, Fowler & Wells co. · leaf 52
Fig. 9.—The effect of bending forward, when seated, with and without corsets. to mind the contrast between the hard abdominalparietes of the average man and the lax belly ofmost women. Engel reports cases in which theperistaltic movements could be watched throughwalls thinned from tight lacing. Of… … Fig. 10.—The heavy outline with corsets, the thin without corsets. muscles of the female. Shroeder and others at-tribute to these muscles the expulsive power inchildbirth, If this theory is correct, the necessity 44 THE WELL-DRESSED WOMAN. for the use of forceps in a large number of casesis due to…
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