SOME REMARKS ON CORSETS.
By W. E. FOTHERGILL, M.A., B.Sc., M.D.,
Assistant Physician to the Northern Hospital for Women and Children, Manchester; Lecturer in Obstetrics, Owens College.
The Medical Press and Circular for June 24th, 1903, contains a most interesting article entitled "Some Remarks On Chlorosis," by Dr. William Williams. The author asks why chlorosis is a disease of young females; why the general condition as regards flesh is not materially affected as well as that of the blood; and why they recover so quickly on the adoption of loose clothing, low diet, and mild purgatives ? His answer begins as follows :—
"Taking the above questions in the order they come, the only answer forthcoming to the first is, that women are clothed differently to men, and that young women or girls, not having become as yet accustomed to tight lacing, continue to suffer until their shapes are permanently altered, and the abdominal organs have become acclimatised to the change of locality. Most girls fill out rapidly on the advent of puberty, and such subjects would suffer most from a corset fixed in size, to say nothing of the fact that stoutishly inclined young women would be just the ones to entertain
