The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals . ological difference between man andwoman is really a pathological rather than a physi-ological difference. In short, I believe that theonly reason why women do not, under ordinarycircumstances, breathe as do men is simply thatthey cannot breathe naturally. Dr. Keiloggs investigations were made withthe pneumograph and recording cylinder. Thepneumograph is placed successively on the chestand abdomen. It rises and falls with the act ofrespiration, and the power of the movement is indi-ca
The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals . ological difference between man andwoman is really a pathological rather than a physi-ological difference. In short, I believe that theonly reason why women do not, under ordinarycircumstances, breathe as do men is simply thatthey cannot breathe naturally. Dr. Keiloggs investigations were made withthe pneumograph and recording cylinder. Thepneumograph is placed successively on the chestand abdomen. It rises and falls with the act ofrespiration, and the power of the movement is indi-cated by the registering cylinder. Fig. 15 repre-sents the breathing of a man and Fig. 16 thebreathing of a civilized woman. The curves of theformer show almost no motion in the chest andstrong motion of the diaphragm. In the latter theorder of costal and abdominal breathing is Keiloggs first observations were upon Chinese 52 THE WELL-DRESSED WOMAN. women of San Francisco who know nothing of waistconstricture. Of twenty Chinese women whom heexamined not one presented the costal type of Fig. Costal. Abdominal. 16. /l/l/VVk Costal. Abdominal. Civilized Woman (unmarried, age 33 years). respiration. In every one the abdominal breathingwas as prominent as in males who lead sedentarylives (Fig. 17). Dr. Kelloggs next observations Fig. 17.
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