Human physiology : designed for colleges and the higher classes in schools and for general reading . raphs itis manifest, that the interference with the due expansion of theluno-s, which so commonly results from the modes of dress inthe female sex, must be one of the prominent causes of con-sumption, to say nothing of other diseases arising from thiscause. This interference is effected in two ways—chiefly bycompression of- the chest directly, but also by the pressurewhich the load of clothing hanging from the girt waist mustmake upon the upper part of the abdomen. This latter causeinterferes w
Human physiology : designed for colleges and the higher classes in schools and for general reading . raphs itis manifest, that the interference with the due expansion of theluno-s, which so commonly results from the modes of dress inthe female sex, must be one of the prominent causes of con-sumption, to say nothing of other diseases arising from thiscause. This interference is effected in two ways—chiefly bycompression of- the chest directly, but also by the pressurewhich the load of clothing hanging from the girt waist mustmake upon the upper part of the abdomen. This latter causeinterferes with that forward movement of the abdomen which,as vou saw in § 135, is necessary to the flattening of the archof the diaphragm in the act of inspiration. The extent towhich compression of the chest is sometimes carried is seen by 96 HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY. Change of the form and capacity of the chest by compression. comparing the two outlines in Fig. 42. One is an outline,the Venus de Medicis, the universally recognized beau idealof beauty of form in the female, and the other is an outline FIG.
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