The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . theupper part of the trunk bows over, asshown in Fig. 66. The stomach, intes-tines, and other organs are necessarilycrowded out of place, and indigestion,constipation, headaches, backaches, andmany ills that come from congestion andsluggish circulation are the inevitableconsequence. The so-called straight front corsethas wrought a great improvement in thisFig. 66. —Figure distorted one particular fault of corsct making, but by compression at the front of the waist. {Courtesy of most corsets a
The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . theupper part of the trunk bows over, asshown in Fig. 66. The stomach, intes-tines, and other organs are necessarilycrowded out of place, and indigestion,constipation, headaches, backaches, andmany ills that come from congestion andsluggish circulation are the inevitableconsequence. The so-called straight front corsethas wrought a great improvement in thisFig. 66. —Figure distorted one particular fault of corsct making, but by compression at the front of the waist. {Courtesy of most corsets are Still cut SO that they Dr. Dickinson.) crowd the figure too much inward im-mediately on each side of the central Hne in front. Forthe width of the rectus abdominus muscle, and somewhatbeyond it, the corset should be straight in front, curving out-ward above the waist to meet the bust; the inward taper shouldbegin around toward the sides and extend from there entirelyacross the back. This inward curve of the waist in front is notthe only harmful feature of ill-shaped corsets. There has arisen. THE HYGIENE OF POSTURE 173 an idea that because a straight hne is good on the front of acorset it is equally desirable behind, and as a result the straight-back corset has come into existence. This is one of the mostdeforming corsets ever devised, and is responsible for a mode inposture that is ridiculous in the weak and fairly idiotic contoursthat it cultivates. By forcing the buttocks inward, this corsettilts downward the posterior rim of thepelvis, obliterates the lumbar curve, andforces a collapsed position of the chest,and a forward thrust of the head. The physicians quoted agree on thegeneral points of corset shape, and alsothat the way in which a corset is lacedand put on are as important as its greatest pressure should be below theline of the hips ( below the crest of theihum). At that point it may be verysnug, as pressure there sends the organsupward and holds the
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