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186 Corset of a novel and ingenious construction, invented by Madame Caplin, of Berners Street, London. This Corset (ap­propriately designated Hygienic), differs from all others in many important points: it affords a greater degree of support than can be acquired by any other means, expands the chest, favours the symmetrical development of the female form, and contri­butes, in a remarkable degree, to the general health. After the usual discussion, a commission, consisting of Drs. Caron, Genest, and Ribes, was appointed to examine into its merits, which they did; and in a lengthened report, recommended to the Society that a letter be addressed to Dr. Caplin, congratulating him on the result his wife had attained in the construction of her Corset, as also to encourage her in the pursuit of further im­provements. Madame Caplin's collection is well worthy of attention, as everything that mechanical art, directed by medi­cal science, could do to render the Corset consistent with health, has there been brought into requisition, so as to render it an object not merely of fashionable but of sanitary interest.—"­Daily News, August 4, 1851.

,—The Corset now under your consideration, invented and manufactured by Madame Caplin, of London, has been presented by her husband, Dr. Caplin, a corresponding member of the Society, at present residing in London, and who, when amongst us, nearly twenty years ago, used to take an active part in our scientific work, and who frequently met with your approbation for the many communications he made to the society on objects of art.