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Rh, as the prevention of its occurrence. Taking the perfection of female beauty as our standard, our struggle is for preserving it in that condition where it exists; or should any deviation from that stan­dard have taken place, our endeavours are directed to the restoration to the normal form. It is uni­versally acknowledged that a good figure may be made a bad one by an injudicious mode of dressing; and if such be the case—if the human body will yield to injurious pressure, thereby producing de­formity, an opposite course must produce opposite effects, and by a certain adaptation of means, an imperfect or declining figure be brought, if not into a state of absolute perfection, at least into one very closely approximating to it. We do not profess to perform impossibilities, but do confidently assert that in the course of a short time the method which we advocate, if fairly carried out, will do more for the promotion of health, elegance of figure, and prevention of disease, than all the medicine which may be administered for the pur­pose. This is no idle boast; every day's experi­ence proves its correctness, and there are scores of families now living who can and will, if necessary, testify to the truth of our assertion. On the birth of the infant, after the process of