Star.
London, England, 1827-09-11 00:00:00

-fiCIIT STAYS.

The Philadelphia Medical Journal contains an sc.
count of a case whirls will no doubt be read with son 4
ter of the fair sex, and also by some poo
tier of
b
f the dian
emalye community. The article is on the
injuries vaulting from confinement of the chest by
tight stays. A case is mentioned of a yonne female
who was brought ;ato the anatomical hall, in Jefferson
College, l'hiladelphia, for dissection, from which the.
following are extracts.—" On exposing the rhea, are.
markable deformity presented itself, ocka,ioned for dis.
tortion of the breast bone. About twoinkhes from the
top of the sternum, where the first piece or that bone
' joins the second, was an indentation nearly an inch in
depth, immediately above which the bwe abrupt)l
protruded, so as to f,orni an .obviour tumour betsereri
the breasts. The ribs, also attached to the protuberant
piece of the sternum, were of course more Inched tharl
those below,giving to the ,A hole upper part of the cbett
a mote free expansion than belongei to.the lower. The
pit in the sternum was precisely where the extremity
of the busk or corset board is usually worn. This;
together with the confined aspect of the lower part of
the chest, instantly suggested, to every one who saw it,
the cause, which tniquestionably was the weaiiiig of the
tightly laced corset before the form of the individual
had been fully developed. On examining the contents
of the thofax, the capacity of which had thus been
encroached upon, it was frond that the subject had
been the victim of pulmonary consumption, one of the
most important predisposing causes of which, we know
to be a confined chest. It cannot be doubted, therefore,
that the fatal disease, in this instance, had nevi aggra.
vateJ, and might have been provoked by the habit of
dress."

In the bed of the Red &a, and on scme part of the
coast of America, there grows a very curious marine
plant, which is flat, and spreads very mach like a per.
cock's feather. Its colour, in general, is tawny, but
some are found of a very fine olive. It is formed of
innumerable ligneous fibres interwoven together, and is
as supple and tough as whalebone. Maryut sometimes
found eighteen inches long in the Red Sea; and ate
eagerly sought by the women of America for !ans. Ira
some few instances these plants are found of a ivy
beautiful red, or variegated, when, of course, their 'aloe
is greatly increased.
Wednesday last, a. number of persons assembled to
witness the taking down of the weathercock from the
steeple of Aylesbury church, for the purpose of its be.
ing re-gilt. This somewhat perilous task was achieved
without any accident, by the workmen of Mr. Collies,
bricklayer. They reached the top of the spire by means
of a scaffolding built round it, and which is to remain
until the spire is painted. Ic appears from an ado sea.
surement that has been taken, that the height of the
church, reckoning from the top of the weathercock to
its base, is 123 feet....-IFindsor Express.
Friday a depredator got over the iron fence before
the house of Mr. Lloyd, at Turnhaur Green Terrace,
Torah= Green. and opening the parlour window sr•
perceived, took out a silver toastrack, with which be
got clear off. The piece of plate was once the property
of GARRICK, and highly valued by the owner tuna
account.
Saturday a young woman, residing in Osborne-meta
Whitechapel, was dreadfully gored by a bullock. lie
thigh was actually perforated by the aniendshomias
most dangerous manner. She now lies at the Loan
Hospital with but faint hope of recovery.
Saturday night, as a young man named BraJshav,
Ver y much intoxicated, was procecing along Od
Heaton town, in a cart laden with veget abler, when
near Miles's Lunatic Asylum, be untortanately fed
under the wheels of the cart, which parsed sideways
along his body, and over his bead. He was picked op
by the bystanders, placed in a cart, and driven off to
the London Hospital, where he breathed his last a fee
hours after his arrival.

MARRIED.
Rev. Thomas Fuller, Minister of St. Peter's Churcia,Fimnal
to Josephine ThErete, Mkt of Joan Sanders, Esq. of Rail"

DIED.

At Smyrna, on the sth nit. deepliretretted. J. K. Fisber,f4
.sident partner of Messrs. Kerr. Black, and Fisher, of that city.
Friday, at Shooters HUI, Hanlon Spencer, wife of Liansse
*eke Lewis, Roy*, Doibaser&
Friday, at HaisteJ, Mrs. Hobos, the wife of Mr. Bohm,

rae MPUIMMINiIIit.
At Long Island, neer New Yeek,Wilibus Arcot, laq.loweilli
son of Cohn Meet, Esq. of Clydebank.
At Elan, near Rbw.o, at die Mit ult. Swan, damblef
Sr Janus W. Mamie,. Bert. aged 12 years.
At Kelly House, on the Mb oh. Minima Dentousle, 71
daughter of the Hon. Gilead John Ramey.
At Bashire, on the Perim Gulf, an the 9th of April hit, Jay
!Allies, wife of Capt. D. Wilson, Pendeal Resident at Reildn.

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