DISEASES PRODUCED BY TIGHT CLOTHING. H3 



muscular system, when they cease to be used they cease to grow, 

 and become insufficient for the discharge of their natural functions. 

 Clothing of Children. Finally, it may be stated that the 

 clothing of children, whose feeble frames are less able to resist cold 

 than those of adults, is generally insufficient. When a baby is 

 divested of its long clothes, it is in danger of being insufficiently 

 clad, the danger increasing when it can run alone and is more 

 exposed to atmospheric influences. It can not be too strongly 

 impressed upon those who have the charge of children, that the 

 practice of leaving those parts exposed, which when grown up we 

 find it necessary to clothe warmly, especially the lower limbs and 

 abdomen, is a frequent cause of retarded growth, consumption of 

 the bowels, of the lungs, etc. Insufficient warmth of the body, 

 whether in children or adults, renders the person more susceptible 

 to disease. 



DISEASES PRODUCED BY TIGHT CLOTHING. 



Medical authorities agree on the following as being a list of the 

 principal diseases that are caused by tight dressing: Apoplexy, 

 headache, consumption, giddiness, jaundice, womb diseases, cancer 

 of the breast, asthma, spitting of blood, palpitation of the heart, 

 water on the chest, cough, abcesses in the lungs, eruptions, diseases 

 of the kidneys, also of the liver in some of its manifold complica- 

 tions, bad digestion and loss of appetite. And to these consequences 

 should be added that of bearing generally unhealthy and deformed 

 children, a large proportion of which soon find a premature grave, 

 while others swell the list of the inmates of asylums and almshouses, 

 thus carrying into the next generation the ill-starred fruit of a sin- 

 ful indiscretion. 



The only plea in defense of the course that has produced this 

 vast array of disease, misery ana death is the effort to enhance 

 beauty. Will human beings ever learn that they cannot thwart 

 nature; that, if they trespass on her rights in one respect, they are 

 sooner or later destined to pay the penalty ; and that naturally attired 

 persons are those who more readily acquire and maintain true beauty ? 

 Every article of clothing worn by man, woman or child should be sus- 

 pended from the shoulders. Not one article should be worn tighter 

 than if it were naturally laid or placed around thfe body, without a 

 particle of effort to stretch or draw it, and every article of clothing 

 which cannot thus be worn had better be " cast into the flames." 

 Many ladies maintain that they wear their clothing loosely. They 

 may imagine that such is the case. Yet at the same time it is sel- 

 dom that one can be found who is not sadly mistaken on this point, 

 and who does not really wear her clothing unnaturally tight, while 

 much of it is suspended in that most pernicious way from the 

 hips. 



