The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals . Fig. 4.—Anterior view of thorax in the corseted figure. spread widely apart, are in the compressed waistsqueezed inward and downward, until they nearlymeet in the centre1. By the pressure of the corset the shoulders are -J 40 THE WELL-DRESSED WOMAN. raised, the upper lobes are forced to do the breath-ing, the five upper ribs are raised and the inter-spaces widened. This broadening above andconstricting below Dr. Dickinson illustrates byFigs. 5 and 6. The expansive power of the lungsis
The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals . Fig. 4.—Anterior view of thorax in the corseted figure. spread widely apart, are in the compressed waistsqueezed inward and downward, until they nearlymeet in the centre1. By the pressure of the corset the shoulders are -J 40 THE WELL-DRESSED WOMAN. raised, the upper lobes are forced to do the breath-ing, the five upper ribs are raised and the inter-spaces widened. This broadening above andconstricting below Dr. Dickinson illustrates byFigs. 5 and 6. The expansive power of the lungsis reduced by this perversion about one Figs. 5 and 6.—The shape of the cavity when the corsets are tight; thewithout corsets. The change in the shape of the abdominal cavityis shown in Figs. 7 and 8. Dr. .Dickinson callsespecial attention to the close approximation of thebelly-wall to the spinal column and to the bulgingof the stomach (Fig. 7). Without the corset the THE PRESSURE OF THE CORSET. 41 breasts project beyond the abdomen, . . whereaswhen the corset has raised the bust and crowdedthe abdomen down and out the supra-pubic wallbecomes the most projecting part of the profile. Dr. Dickinson shows that the big stomach whichafflicts the stout, corseted woman is the result of
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