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 pressed, her internal organs lacking fat cushions that are ade­quate and supports that are resilient (whether from defect in development or overstretch of pregnancy) this type is commonly harmed by corsets.

These types are contrasted in several figures here shown.

Let us discriminate. It is of use to make groups as follows:

1. A small class of women who suffer no apparent permanent injury even by excesses in pressure and constriction.



2. A large class where moderate degrees of constriction are tolerated with hardly appreciable harm.

3. A large class of women somewhat below par in whom abdominal constrictions slowly induce considerable alterations, sometimes permanent.

4. A small class wherein even slight departures from normal conditions cause serious disturbances.

In studying corset pressures I have used a mercury manometer. The methods heretofore in use by Schatz, Hormann, Moritz,