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planned to encircle the potential groove between hip crest and thigh top, and dips low to lift and not to force downward the abdomen and its contents.

Thus theory and corset are perfectly fitted. Patient, fashion, and doctor,—all are satisfied.

Thereupon the lady indulges in a habit of sitting down. She sometimes adds the practice of stooping forward. This is

Need of supervision after operation : the prolapse would have recurred. FIG. 45.—A not uncommon effect of an hourglass corset on a very relaxed abdominal wall, which in this instance would have soon resulted in return of dis­placement.

"Health-waists" may produce pressure downward and stoop. FIG. 46.—An average health waist: unless very loose and thin and with light skirts it may do harm.

disconcerting and exasperating. For it develops that the bot­tom of the hip girdle, planned for uprightness, is driven down on the front of the bent thigh, and as the result this edge presses uncomfortably. Or else the impact pushes up the whole carefully built structure.

At this point we abandon compromise. There is no perfect