IMPORTANT TO LADIES.
Even when a corset is not tijjht enough to compiess internal organs, it prevents the external muscles of the body from acting as they ought, &o that in time they become feeble from want ot use, like the muscles* of an aim which have been bound up in a splint. There are about se\enteen little joints, Loo, in the spine, which ate more or less immovably (Keel by the wearing of a f-tid' whalebone down r he back, so that it is difficult to understand what people mean m ho in a ist that loose % can do no harm. If a garment that is ii\ed o\er those flexible joints is either Light or stitf, it must do some harm, and if it is neither one nor the other, it cannot be called a corset. — 'The Hospital.'
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 332, 9 January 1889, Page 5
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139IMPORTANT TO LADIES. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 332, 9 January 1889, Page 5
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