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phere. Hence the person looks pale, the lips 

 assume a blue or purplish color, the breathing is 

 labored, the breast heaves and the circulation 

 is prevented from going on as freely as it should. 

 The small air vessels of the lungs are partially 

 obliterated, they become diseased in their action 

 and tubercles form in them or the lungs; these 

 remain to become in a few years the seeds of an 

 incurable consumption. 



Again: The free action of the heat is pre- 

 vented by tight lacing and the consequence is it 

 labors like a dying man, but in vain — it cannot 

 get relieved from its fetters. The blood is pre- 

 vented from flowing with that freedom and ease 

 which are essential to the well being of the sys- 

 tem, and the violent exertion-s which the heart 

 must make in order to carry on the circulation, 

 become the cause of disease in that organ, which 

 perhaps can never be cured. Another evil of 

 lacing: The stomach is always included in the 

 deadly grasp of the corset. The lower floating 

 ribs are forced to take the place the stomach 

 should occupy in part; the skirts are compelled 

 to grow too narrow, the liver is also pressed too 

 closely and the stomach is bound as with a cord. 



