MEDICUS says – “My attention has just been directed to an interesting and important discussion in your Magazine on the subject of corsets, and I have been urged as a medical man to give my opinion regarding them. Under these circumstances, I trust you will allow me to attend the ENGLISHWOMAN’S Conversazione for once, as medical men are supposed to be the great opponents of the corset. It is no doubt true that those medical men who studied for their profession some thirty or forty years ago are still prejudiced against this elegant article of female dress, for stays were very different things even then what they are now. The medical works too, which they studied were written years before and spoke against the buckram and iron stays of the last century. The name stays, however, being still used at the present time, the same odium still attaches to them in the minds of physicians of the old school. But the rising generations of doctors are free from these prejudices, and fairly judge the light and elegant corsets of the present day on their own merits. In short, it is now generally admitted, and I for one, freely allow that moderate compression of the waist by well-made corsets is far from being injurious.”