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 82
from experiments upon guinea-pigs, that by reducing the circumference of the waistone fourth the amount of bile is diminished onehalf. This damming up of the outlets for the bilehas been shown to be the frequent cause of gall-stones, a malady which occurs much more frequentlyin women than in men.… … MmM ikQsto&w* A HOUSE-DRESS. EFFECT ON THE LIVER OF TIGHT-LACING. 69 pepsia. Under the conditions of constant pressurewe may look for cancerous growths, sallow com-plexions, and the lugubrious expression of coun-tenance which usually coexists with a torpid
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