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Title: The Bacteriological world and modern medicine
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Bacteriology Bacteriology
Publisher: Battle Creek, Mich : Modern Medicine Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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aist of the young woman of from 18 to only necessary for health, but also essen- 30 years who has worn corsets or tight tial to physical grace and beauty, and the bands for a number of years, is only 23.3 development of many bodily deformities, inches? Why should the waist decrease such as drooping shoulders, flat or hollow in size with age while every other bodily chest, sunken epigastrium, straight spine, dimension increases ? 3. An ungraceful and unnatural carriage Still another question of interest arises of the body in sitting, standing, and walk- from the fact to which almost every ing. woman can testify, that the waist of the 4. An abnormal mode of respiration, average woman accustomed to constriction The idea that a displaced stomach can from clothing, increases in measure when- be a possible cause of disease or incon- ever it has an opportunity for develop- venience may be new to some. Neverthe- mentj as when the common mode of dress less, the researches of Glenard, Bouchard,
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14 ORIGINAL ARTICLES. Dujardin-Beaumetz, and other eminent waist is occupied by the small intestines, French physicians, have shown beyond the bladder, and the rectum, with the room for doubt that displacement of uterus and its appendages in the female, the stomach, bowels, kidneys, liver, and and the prostate gland and other special other abdom^inal viscera, may be produc- structures in the male. It is noticeable tive of the most pronounced disturbance that the organs of the greatest weight and of health and a source of great inconven- functional importance are located at or ience. Indeed, from my own studies on above the waist. this subject I have become convinced that How are all these important organsa displaced and dilated stomach is more held in position ? Although fitted to-likely to be productive of immediate and gether with the nicety of an articulation,harmful consequences of a grave charac- the viscera are certainly not held togetherter, than displacement of the pelvic vis-

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