. The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals . - cannot breathe naturally. Dr. Kelloggs investigations were made withthe pneumograph and recording cylinder. Thepneumograph is placed successively on the chestand abdomen. It rises and falls with the act ofrespiration, and the power of the movement is indi-cated by the registering cylinder. Fig. 15 repre-sents the breathing of a man and Fig. 16 thebreathing of a civilized woman. The curves of theformer show almost no motion in the chest andstrong motion of the diaphragm. In the lat
. The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals . - cannot breathe naturally. Dr. Kelloggs investigations were made withthe pneumograph and recording cylinder. Thepneumograph is placed successively on the chestand abdomen. It rises and falls with the act ofrespiration, and the power of the movement is indi-cated by the registering cylinder. Fig. 15 repre-sents the breathing of a man and Fig. 16 thebreathing of a civilized woman. The curves of theformer show almost no motion in the chest andstrong motion of the diaphragm. In the latter theorder of costal and abdominal breathing is Kelloggs first observations were upon Chinese 52 THE WELL-DBE88ED WOMAJS. women of San Francisco who know nothing of waistconstricture. Of twenty Chinese women whom lieexamined not one presented the costal type of. Abdominal. Man. Fig. 16. Costal. Abdominal. Civilized Woman (unmarried, age 89 \ears). respiration. In every one the abdominal breathingwas as prominent as in males who lead sedentarjlives IFig. 171. Dr. Kelloggs next observations
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