The hydropathic encyclopedia: a system of hydropathy and hygiene .. . is not akuethe cause of injury resulting from large gatherings of people in »il-ventilated places, for the air thrown out from the lungs, isrendered still more noxious by the exhalations from the skin. The artificial habit of lessening the breathing capacity by means ofBtays, corsets, and tight dresses, is now happily passing away, althoughthe wasp-like waists which deform so many of the gentler sex s„illadorn the fashion plates of the magazines, and caricature the fem«leform in most of the fashionable shop-wind
The hydropathic encyclopedia: a system of hydropathy and hygiene .. . is not akuethe cause of injury resulting from large gatherings of people in »il-ventilated places, for the air thrown out from the lungs, isrendered still more noxious by the exhalations from the skin. The artificial habit of lessening the breathing capacity by means ofBtays, corsets, and tight dresses, is now happily passing away, althoughthe wasp-like waists which deform so many of the gentler sex s„illadorn the fashion plates of the magazines, and caricature the fem«leform in most of the fashionable shop-windows. Could the women ofAmerica—I say nothing of ladies—fully appreciate the importance ofdress as connnected with respiration, and the relation of this functionto their own health and hapriness and the welfare of their offspring,the monthly importation of Parisian cuts, turns, twists, fits and mistlts,would soon je substituted by short dreBsee .:<ose as well as short, 01something r the way o * clothing tf»t w is ei-aaeipate the lungs am HYGIENE. Kg. 149. BirUJAI. WAIST. Fig. 150. from oppression most ibul, strange, and A reform in female dress would not onlyset free the breathing apparatus, tut would conferan incalculable benefit on the humafl race in anotherrespec. It would enable the wealthy classes tcdevote more attention to more useful subjects, andthink less of the frivolities of ever-changing andnever satisfying fashions; and diminish the demandupon the kind of work—sewing by day and bynight—which is now ruining the constitutions ofthousands of poor and industrious females, andsending them rapidly to premature graves. Fig. 149 is a representation of the female chest in the natural state, unconstrained in the least by the clothing. The person who fails to discover the ease, grace, beauty, and symmetry of the figure as contrasted with that of a modern belle, must have a taste as artificial as any man- tua-maker could desire. It is perfectly cert
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