Corseted Monkeys To Determine Success Of Fashion for Women
Rec. 10 p.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 9. A prominent physiologist, Dr Andrew C. Ivy, vice-president of Illinois University, said to-day that he proposed to confine 40 monkeys in tight corsets for two years in an experiment to determine whether the proposed new fashion for women—tightly corseted waists—would be injurious to their health. He expressed the opinion that tight corsets helped to cause stomach ulcers.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26589, 11 October 1947, Page 7
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