Human physiology : designed for colleges and the higher classes in schools and for general reading . representing the contraction of the chest may appear at thepresent time as caricatures, for a very small waist is not con-sidered now to be as essential to beauty in the female form, asit was twenty-five years ago. The truth, as uttered by medicalmen, has had some effect. But the evil is remedied only in RESPIRATION. 97 Cause of death in drowning. Singular provision in the whale. part. The chest of the female is still too much begirt, in obe-dience to the tyranny of fashion, to allow of the fre
Human physiology : designed for colleges and the higher classes in schools and for general reading . representing the contraction of the chest may appear at thepresent time as caricatures, for a very small waist is not con-sidered now to be as essential to beauty in the female form, asit was twenty-five years ago. The truth, as uttered by medicalmen, has had some effect. But the evil is remedied only in RESPIRATION. 97 Cause of death in drowning. Singular provision in the whale. part. The chest of the female is still too much begirt, in obe-dience to the tyranny of fashion, to allow of the free expan-sion, to secure which such special pains are taken by evil begins in childhood. The chest is moulded duringits growth to the shape which fashion prescribes. It could notbe done after the chest has attained its full size. The tortureof the compression necessary to do it could not be childhood, therefore, while the boys chest is left to growin its natural shape and dimensions, the girl is begirt so tightlyas to embarrass her respiration, because nature is too ungen-te
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