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| Keywords: TheFamilyDoctorSept14 1889page42.png <center> CORSET DISCIPLINE TO THE EDITOR OF THE FAMILY DOCTOR </center> SIR --I am not hopeful that the refined cruelty so unseemly boasted of by Finished Figure and her friends will be stopped as a result of anything I or anyone else have to say but will you allow me to protest as strongly as I can against its barbarity Because forsooth a woman has lost control if she ever had it over her children she must needs go and strap them in an instrument of torture Was ever such a thing heard boasted of outside the walls of the Inquisition Might I suggest as alternatives the thumb screw the boot-jack or even the body-rack as further aids to proper behaviour Many of your readers know a little at any rate about physiology and anatomy Listen and imagine all that happens when F F applies her treatment Two young healthy jolly girls thoroughly enjoy a game of lawn tennis Some wasps i e people with slim waists suggest and the mother at once agrees to clap the girls in very long heavily-boned stays with stiff broad busks preventing stooping besides being very uncomfortable This enforced patience and submission To punish them tighten the culprits' a word quite in keeping with the savagery of the operation lace so as to entail an extra degree of discomfort At night lace them in one inch smaller than before And what is one of the grand chief results No language can describe the horror with which I read it knowing its meaning they are becoming beautifully white The treatment of F F 's stepson is brutal in the extreme Does it not make one's blood boil to hear anyone talk so flippantly of brutalities worthy only of the thirteenth century Talk about the open brutality that we hear so much about among the poor--for a specimen of the very essence of cruelty refer to the refined modernised inhumanity of Finished Figure W A DAVIDSON Tightlacing The Family Doctor 1889 to Finished Figure ; from W A Davidson PD-Art Artworks missing infobox template | ||||
