Skeleton of woman who wears corsets

[JoAnne Schmitz]

At
http://perpetualplum.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/illustrations-friday-medical-maladies/

we are treated to a diagram of a woman whose skeleton is deformed by
wearing a corset.

While it's not the "removed ribs to wear" corset picture I would have hoped
for, in fact, this picture has 11 pairs of front ribs while the other has
only 10, it's still interesting.

JoAnne "skeletons on the brane this week" Schmitz

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On Oct 26, 10:54 pm, JoAnne Schmitz <jschm...@qis.net> wrote:
> Athttp://perpetualplum.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/illustrations-friday-me...

>
> we are treated to a diagram of a woman whose skeleton is deformed by
> wearing a corset.
>
> While it's not the "removed ribs to wear" corset picture I would have hoped
> for, in fact, this picture has 11 pairs of front ribs while the other has
> only 10, it's still interesting.
>
> JoAnne "skeletons on the brane this week" Schmitz

This reminds me of an exhibit I saw at the Mutter Museum [1] of a 19th
century woman' skeleton showing deformation of the ribcage due to
corset use. Unfortunately, my cursory search of their website fails
to find a picture of that particular skeleton, and while it _might_
be visible in the background of the Virtual Tour, it's not clear
enough to really see the important detail. Since it was in the
permanent collection, I expect it is still there; maybe some Philly-
area AFU member can confirm my memory?

-Robert A. DeRose, Jr.
[1] http://www.collphyphil.org/mutter.asp
The Mutter Museum is one of the things I miss about living in
Philadelphia.

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On Oct 27, 3:54 am, JoAnne Schmitz <jschm...@qis.net> wrote:
> Athttp://perpetualplum.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/illustrations-friday-me...
>

> we are treated to a diagram of a woman whose skeleton is deformed by
> wearing a corset.
>
> While it's not the "removed ribs to wear" corset picture I would have hoped
> for,

I thought that was for self oral sex. Um... you can't really ask
anyone if it's worth it. Well, there is this one guy who was on TV.
He's just naturally made that way. I still thought probably not, but
maybe that's the way /I'm/ naturally made, which seems, um,
satisfactory.

> in fact, this picture has 11 pairs of front ribs while the other has
> only 10, it's still interesting.
>
> JoAnne "skeletons on the brane this week" Schmitz

Is this piece well known?
<http://discovermagazine.com/1995/sep/darwinsrib561>
Robert S. Root-Bernstein allegedly is surprised in anatomy class when
a student expects one rib fewer in women ("My mandible dropped"). [*]
However, he himself has one rib couple fewer than his mother...

[*] It means his jaw. Despite his shortage of ribs...