Arena magazine - Volume 04 . sults of yielding to fashion. Thelearned Doctor Trail in writing on this subject wiselyobserves: The evil effects of tight-lacing, or of lacing at all, and of bind-ing the clothing around the hips, instead of suspending it fromthe shoulders, can never be fully realized without a thorougheducation in anatomy and physiology. And if the illustrations * The words of wise counsel while you were unfolding, If some one should show you these pictures to-day?1 dream of your faces: divinest compassion Would yearn the poor toiler to pity and save;And your largeness of scorn w
Arena magazine - Volume 04 . sults of yielding to fashion. Thelearned Doctor Trail in writing on this subject wiselyobserves: The evil effects of tight-lacing, or of lacing at all, and of bind-ing the clothing around the hips, instead of suspending it fromthe shoulders, can never be fully realized without a thorougheducation in anatomy and physiology. And if the illustrations * The words of wise counsel while you were unfolding, If some one should show you these pictures to-day?1 dream of your faces: divinest compassion Would yearn the poor toiler to pity and save;And your largeness of scorn would descend on the fashion Which binds, unresisting, the idler a slave. • I have reproduced the admirable cuts found in Dr. Trails physiology, as theywere essential to the understanding of the text quoted, and also because they con-vey more vividly than words the injury necessarily sustained by those who persist inoutraging nature and violating the laws of their being by improper dress. Digitized by VjOOQIC 412 THE The internal viscera. here presented should effect the needed reform in fashionabledress, the resulting health and happiness to the human race wouldbe incalculable; for the health of the mothers of each generation determines, in a very large measure, thevital stamina of the next. It is obviousthat, if the diameter of the chest, at itslower and broader part, is diminishedby lacing, or any other cause, to theextent of one fourth or one half, thelungs B, B, are pressed in towards theheart, A, the lower ribs are drawntogether and press on the liver, C, andspleen, E, while the abdominal organsare pressed downward on the pelvicviscera. The stomach, D, is compressedin its tranverse diameter; both thestomach, upper intestines, and liver arepressed downward on the kidneys, M,M, and on the lower portions of thebowels [the intestinal tube is denotedby the letters f, j, and k,] while thebowels are crowded down on the uterus,i, and bladder, g. Thvs every vital organ is
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