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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Physical and Medical Treatment of Children
We cannot but regard as one of the greatest improvements in modern physical education, the now almost universal abandon ment of swathes, and stays. This unnatural practice, will doubtless, be hereafter looked upon as a tale of the olden time, when fable usurped the place of truth; for we are not certain, even at this moment it will obtain belief, that, in Great Britain.
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