The ordinary evil that follows is the spreading of the figure, which never should, and indeed never would, happen if proper care had been exercised. What is wanting is a regular and progressive compression, with an even, cool, and smooth surface; and if this be given during the inflammatory process, the muscular fibres will return again to their normal position, and resume their original firmness and solidity. Nor will this process cause the least injury to the particular parts under consideration, nor to the general health of the mother; for the muscles having again attained their state of health, will be prepared to repeat the same process without injury.
CONTRACTING BELT.
Every condition mentioned above has been met by our which is a perfect mould for the restoration of the figure. It is smooth, cool, elastic, and accomplishes every end which we had in view. The construction of this article has perhaps caused us more thought, care, and anxiety than any invention which we have ever submitted to the public; but it is a consolation to feel that we have attained the most absolute success. Our Belt has now been in extensive use for a long time, and the fact that it has won the patronage of the first medical authorities of the land, and been adopted by the highest personages of the empire, is a guarantee of its utility. It is indeed one of those boons for which mothers have long sighed.
The nature of our work, which is designed for the Public, compels us to exclude much that is interesting and important to the afflicted mother, as being unsuited to our pages. The reader must not, however, suppose that those matters have been neglected by us, We have,
