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Evening Star, Issue 4074, 17 March 1876, Page 4

. -fh® decline of the ballet has been attract* mg attention recently; and in connection with the subject it has been discovered that just as there is writers’ and telegraphists’ paralysis, so there is “dancers’ cramp ” Dr Schubz, an eminent Austrian physician, has traced the malady from the soles of both feet, where it usually begins, and whence it spreads till the whole' body is implicated in the contraction, producing palpitation of the heart, and ending in insensibility. It is most common, if not almost. confined, to best dancers—those usually entrusted with the pcw scul, that graceful step to profit T* lol * unhappy danseuse has to er ® el L°. Q the extreme point of the greattoe. This step, the learned physician informs us, cannot be produced without the help of shoes expressly made for the purpose,, strengthened at the tip, and fiimished with a support running up the inner side of the toe op which the whole weight of the bog rests. If we add to this new form of screwing up and compression to which the unfortunate ballet girl is subjected before she is considered fit to appear we may well feel surprised that ’SJw w exhibit the goo'd nature and are’the prevailing characteiftttcs of m ladles of.thq Corps ie' Ballet, \