Note 11 — PART I. OF THE GENERAL CAUSES OF DISEASES.
Reading edition
Stays made of bend-leather are worn by all the women of lower station in many parts of England.
I am sorry to understand, that there are still mothers mad enough to lace their daughters very tight in order to improve their shape. As reasoning would be totally lost upon such people, I shall beg leave just to ask them, Why there are ten deformed women for one man? and likewise to recommend to their perusal a short moral precept, which forbids us to deform the human body.