A week or two-since we asked the Lancet to state
once more, for -the benefit of the public, the evils known to arise from tight-lacing. The Lancet complies, and gives a formidable list of the evils arising from the practice. It impairs the respiratory movement -of the diaphragm, throwing the work on the intercostal muscles -and those of the neck, and so diminishes the aeration of the blood, And produces general languor. It drives down the stomach, thus -causing painful forms of dyspepsia, impairs uterine health, and injures, often very seriously, the glands of the breast, an injury -operative on the next generation as well as this. These facts, says the Lancet, have been known for years ; but there are classes of women into whose heads, it would seem, they cannot be driven, even by experience.
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