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vi CHAPTER V.THE CORSET, ITS HISTORY, USE, AND ABUSE. Its general condemnation by the medical faculty.—They do not understand its use. —History of the Corset.—Laws regulating Dress.—True object of the Corset.—­Nature of its construction.—The "Hygienic corporiform Corset," page 35-41. CHAPTER VI.ON THE ADAPTATION OF THE CORSET TO THE BODY. Construction of Corset.—Report of the "Athenée des Arts et Sciences de Paris."—Report of the Great Exhibition of 1851.—List of inventions and adaptations.—­Claims of originality.—Explanations of plates.—"Petticoat-suspender," page 42-51. CHAPTER VII.ON GESTATION. On the phenomena of Gestation and the support necessary at that time.—"Gestation Corset."—Parturition.—The contracting belt, &c., page 52-60. CHAPTER VIII.MIDDLE AGE, AND ITS REQUIREMENTS. Middle life defined.—Changes which take place in the body at that time.—Hottentot women and their pendulous mammæ.—Irish women.—Deformities of the breasts.—­African and European women compared.—French and German Corsets.—How Corsets should be constructed.—Constitutions of women stronger than that of men.—How a corpulent lady should be dressed, page 61-67. CHAPTER IX.ON SPINAL DEFORMITIES. Importance of healthy exercises to children.—The erect position.—Structure of the spine.—Laurence's ideas.—Respiration.—Gentlemen's braces.—Dr. Caplin's "Lec­tures on Spinal Deformities" quoted.—The invisible crutch.—Scapula-contractor.—Monitor bodice, &c. &c., page 68-79. CHAPTER X.OLD AGE, WHAT CAN BE DONE TO SUSTAIN IT. Painful feelings associated with the idea of old age.—Walker on the third age of woman.—Physiological changes.—"Premature old age."—What we can do to aid; nature, page 80-83.