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Dickinson: Toleration of the Corset.

The Questions are:

1. Does this corset throw the shoulders forward and the hips backward?

2. Does it produce excessive pressures, and is the waist-line pressure greater than that lower on the abdomen?

FIG. 30.—The veins about ovary and anus are at the lower ends of blood columns without valves, subjected to constriction at the upper or delivery ends by corsets; hence, hemorrhoids and aching broad ligaments.

3. Are the conditions such that altered corset conditions will help to relieve the disability?

4. Is there present a type of body, of abdominal support, of c displacement, to be much affected by pressure or