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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE.
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fbung raee-norse or greyhound , by bind * ing tight splints or stays rotund its beautiful young body , and then tying it op in a ? tall ; but this is the kind of absurdity and cruelty ao commonly practised in this country towards , what may be well called , the most faultless of created things . '
" Although want of exercise is , perhaps , the most important cause of the frequency of lateral curvature , yet 1 do not doubt that stiff stays and tight lacing very materially increase the mischief produced by inactivity . Tight lacing not © n ) y prevents a dne development of the muscles by pressure , but by fixing into one immovable mass the ribs and
vertebrae of the back , which , more especially in youth , should hare free motion on each other , makes the whole upper part of the body a dead weight on the vertebrae of the loins , which , in consequence give way to one or other side , and lateral curvature is produced . ' * " Not only does tight lacing act directly in this manner , but indirectly it operates in diminishing muscular vigour , by impeding respiration . It is well known
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Dr . Carpenter in Reply to the Eclectic Review and Mr . Ellis . To the Editor . Sir , Bristol , June , 1831 . I am among the many who have to thank your very able Reporter for the faithful record he has given us of the proceedings of the Unitarian Association , on the memorable day when we had the
satisfaction of seeing among us , bath in worship and in general co-ope ratio n , that remarkable person to whom our hearts and hopes have been so long directed ; to whom we have looked with earnestness , in reference not merely to those religious opinions which
characterize our denomination of Christians , but also to those more general purpose * of human well-being , which no other sect regard with more fervent desires than we do , and with which we find our views of Christianity so admirably coalesce * . Our . distinguished visitor , Ram * mohua Roy— -the simple name copveyp
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that muscular power bears a relative proportion to the freedom of respiration ^ animals having the highest development of the respiratory organs , being the most powerful in muscular force . Tight stays compress the ribs together , and prevent the play of the respiratory
muscles—when applied during the growth of the body , they prevent the development of the chest , and thus lay the foundation of many pectoral diseases . Much more might be said on the subject . To expect that stays will be banished from the female dress would be idle , but I think few mothers who will reflect on the evils of
tight lacing in growing girls , will hesitate to defer at least to the latest moment , the vanity of forming their children of that shape which is most convenient to the dress-maker ; for really the great use of stays , from all I can learn on the subject ,
appears to be , that they form the most suitable groundwork for the attachment of the manufactures o # * these artists . The female form , at least in youth , requires no artificial aid to improve it ; who would think of putting stays on the Venus de Medici !"—Pp . 36—46 V
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to us more than any earthly title can do- — must have perceived , beyond any antici * pation of his own , how extensively and cordially he had obtained our respectful regards ; and his presence among us has already secured him a degree of personal attachment and esteem , which rests on no party considerations . He is come at a period when he sees our nation in its
moral greatness ; and in ita preparation for a system of improvement , which , it pursued with wisdom % will eventually realize hopes long dawning in the dig-, tance , bat now , as it appears , like the beams of the rising sun . To him the prospect must be peculiarly cheering . Whatever expectations he had entertained
of good to his country , from his representations at the seat of power ,, he must now regard as vastly more likely to- be fulfilled , than at any former period he could have reasonably hoped for . —But whatever disappoint meat , as to particular objects of desire , too sanguine hope may have to experience , the kingdom of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1831, page 551, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2600/page/47/
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