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Diagram 7.

Diagram 7 shows in broken outline the shape of an average bad corset upon a slender young woman unusually wide at hips for the width of rib wall. The corset was tight at waist and pressed the flesh downward over the hips, causing it to bulge out at the thighs.

A reference to the first sub­ject of the photographic plates 1, 3 and 5, an pages 13, 14 and 15, will show the type of corset which produced the outline in­dicated by the broken lines, and in contrast to that the plates 2, 4 and 6 on same pages, the cor­set with which correction was made.

Comparative measurements of the two corsets (in inches) :

	Incorrect Corset.	Correct Corset.
Bust	30	31
Rib wall	25	28
Waist	21	23
Hips	36	34

It will be noted that the wrong corset constricted the waist 2 inches and the rib wall 3 inches. This for so small a per­son greatly diminished the breathing capacity.

Six months after fitting patient could not wear the former corset, awing to increased expansion of rib wall and diaphragm. "Nervous indigestion" and a feeling of extreme exhaustion were the conditions from which there was a gratifying relief.