The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1868-02-04
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i From the New York Sun, Jan. 10. s,
Ia PerniclOus Fractice--FenaIs
j Tight Lacing--Its Fatal COnse-
euences Illustrated. Z
4 During the last century, the medica
fraternity Of Europe and America have
been loud in thsi. dsnunciation of .tigh,
lacing, and all the OWLS which spring from
ia desire to have small. waist, on the par
Iof the fairer sex. DR.. Abefnethy once
lsaid that stays and corssts were the bes
friends Of that fell disease, consumption
but the ladies paid no heed to his advise
tand it Woull be quite impossible to cal
leulats how many young creatures hay,
since bsen hurried to an untimely grave
nesel5 throgghsa false pride and an nm
reasonable aslhegears, to silly fashion.
Examples Save moi been Wanting ii
1 latter years TO carry out the theory of DIR
Abernethy. On last Sunday, a youn,
Ilady, only tWenty-four years8of age, fol
a victim to tight lacing, and the particu
lars of the case are worthy of comment
Miss Emma A. Tours resided at No. Il
IJones street, and, although displaying
rather tendency toward em5onpoiiat, wai
Regarded by her friends as good looking
and healthy to good degree. Her land.
5iady, in her deposition before the Coro-
ner, said: "She had lived with me mol
quite a.year; have observed, when she
went Up stairs, that she seemed to expe.
rience a difficulty Of breathing, and ap-
lpeared to suffer from achoking sensation.
| knew that she was in the habit Of lacing
very tightly but she always appeared to
fenjoy good health" Miss Tours went
out on Sunday afternoon to attend tne Il {
dedication of new Methodist Church in
Eleventh street, and on her return from
thence to her home vas apparently seized
| with a fit, and dropped down suddenly
lat the corner Of Eleventh street and
Third Avenue. - e
A gentleman named Reeves G. Selmer,
who saw the occurrence, aeposed that lie
| lived at 35S West Taalfth Street. He
said: 81 first saw deceased after she fell
aud was being picked up, and went With
her to the drug store, to which she Was
carried ] told them to send for a ply
sician, and they brought DR.. Kimbark,
but the lady died in some ten or fifteen
minutes after she was taken into. the
tstore. b, The deceased came along with o
member of the Bank street Methodist
Episcopal Church, to attend the dedica-
ttion Of the new Eleventh street Chapel,
and was returning home after the service,
when she fell down in the street."
| Officer George Davis being duly sworn,
deposed as follows: 81 am attached to
the Seventeenth Precinct; yesterday (Sun-
fday) about ten minutes past one o'clock,
while 4 vas nairnlling nay post ON Third
Avenue, when ] was near Eighth street
and Third Avenue, l saw crowd at No.
43, which is drug store; went in there
and found that some man had taken a
lady into the drug store; | went in and
found Surgeon Kimbark, attending the
deceased; after waiting about ten minutes
the surgeon came out and said that the
lady was dead. I then got a wagon and
removed the lady to the Seventeenth Pre-
cinct Police Station."g msd3 8 ss,s.lF,
From inquiries made it appears that
| the deceased was most respectable young
girl of very orderly conduct She twas
rather Of plethoric habit and was al
ways trying to reduce herbulk, and Of
late had become a martyr-to tight laeing,
which, indeed, proved to be the cause Of
her death. 1t is stated that on Sunday
morning she procured the assistance Of
two other young girls in the house in
which she lived, in order to draw in her
lcorsets, and when she was undressed it
was found that these pressed tightly into
her ribs, and left the marks of impress
sion.
g DR.. Sweich Fl. Loo, who made the post
Fnaortem examination, deposed as follows
on the inquest held on Monday; 81 have
made post mortens examination Of the
deceased, Emma A. Tours. The rigor
imortis was fully marked, and the body
presented a plethoric and fatty condition,
with a considerable determination of
blood to the head and dependent portions.
On removing the right and left lungs,
found, them both of a dark congested col.
or, with positive and marked congestion
disseminated through them. The heart
was slightly fatty externally, and both
the auricles and syentricles we're filed In
my opinion. death resulted from qpoplsetic
tpuln,oaiuns.' sa
There is little doubt from these facts,
that this unfortunate lady came to her
death through an lnjudicious adherence
to the trammels ofsfashien. Her. fate
should be a warning to others who wish
to transform the figure of the Venus de
aMedici into, the semblapce Of wasp.
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