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Dickinson: Toleration of the Corset.
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should have missed many a diagnosis and failed to strengthen many a defective body. In simpler cases I specify the exercises and give out slips of printed directions or typewritten sheets suitably checked. In order to be sure that the training is carried

FIG. 23.
FIGS. 21, 22, 23.—Corset deformities E. The fat pads that environ the genitals and emphasize them: over trochanters, over iliac crests, on buttocks. These two women would look at first glance not ill made were there no goddess for compari­son. Note the trunk atrophy as compared with the Venus de Medici.

out the patient is directed to get a small diary and bring it at each visit to exhibit the entries, just as some sluggish gravid woman of the late months must show her pedometer at specified intervals.