IQ2 ELEMENTS OF PHYSIOLOGY 



behold, with astonishment and laughter, this prodigious waist, with 

 which it seemed to them impossible for a human being to breathe, 

 or live ! ' 



" In future years, when mankind has learned to obey more strictly those 

 laws of nature and science, which are the laws of God, the present 

 fashion of tight lacing will be looked back upon as a contemptible and 

 barbarous superstition, denoting a very low level of civilization in the 

 people who have practiced it" (Rev. Charles Kingsley). 



