Comparison of female outline and skeleton after permanent disfigurement from whale-bone corsets from Professor Sommering's On The Effects of Stays. Woodblock engraving from The Penny Magazine, of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, printed by William Clowes, Lambeth, 1833.

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