TIGHT LACING IN MONKEYS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 115, 16 May 1890, Page 4

TIGHT LACING IN MONKEYS.

The evil effects of tight lacing have been discussed and demonstrated well nigh ad nauseam, though the exhortations to reform •liavenotso far received the amount of attention from the fair sex that their importance and the persistence of the reformers would warrant. It has fallen to Dr Lauder Brunton to afford a further demonstration of the pernicious effects of this practice in a way at once original and somewhat entertaining. In the course of the investigations carried out by him in conjunction with his colleagues of the Hyderabad Commission \ on tho vexed and highly technical question jpf chloroform versus ether it occurred to him to try what effect a mode of dress which wa» likely to interfere with respiration would kava in causing sudden death under an anseathetic. The experiments were carried out on female monkeys, for the jimplr reason, as Dr, Brumton ingenuously expiates, that they are more like women than dogs are. A monkey belonging to the 89X was aooordingly enveloped in a plaster of Paris jacket to imitate Btays, and a tight bandage wae thea tied round the abdomen 60 as to imitate the band which would sus(taia ' the petticoats. It is with mingle feelings of curiosity, and sympathy that we learn (says the Medical Press) of the result of the .experiments, which is reported to have caen " vsry marked indeed,' bo much "«, iudaed, that several of the monkeys died 'vefy qniokly, Dr Brunton add.d tbao the * survival of some of the animals experiment ,-a apooi was probably due to the facb that the "diaphragm ifl able to compensate to a large -tzteat tot the enforced loaa of cheet mova«

not take ibis lesson to beat!-, aad learn from ;he fato of these tight-loci monkeys how eeriotiß a thing it is to ba -.cUoap Nature in the endeavour to Simula- e ;hn grp.o >f ul outlino r;f !h« w;<sp. tho tneiiioa! nhi'a:-

rhrooist m»y well d> spair of over b.-.ing- able to bring reason lobvr or. dress.