The prevention and cure of many chronic diseases by movements : an exposition of the principles and practice by these movements for the correction of the tendencies to disease in infancy, childhood and youth, and for the cure of many morbid affections of adults / by M. Roth.

  • Roth, Mathias, 1839-1891.
Date:
1851
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    healthy regulai- thorax, undeforraed by stays, we shall find that the natural oval form is changed into a pyramid, the basis of •which is turned upwards. Garters, as well above as below the knees, produce directly a waste of the parts in a circular line, varices of the veins, swellings, ulcers of the legs, cold feet; and in- dii-ectly, congestion of the head, lungs, and heart. There is a case on record, in which a lady could not be relieved by movements from her sufferings until she had loosened her garters, which had previously prevented the equal distribution of the blood to the lower limbs. Tight bracelets and the fashionable mode of button- 3. The anterior view of the thorax in the Venus. i. The same in a lady de- formed hy stays.