Laced as tight as sixteen inches, Victorian corsets crushed ribs and displaced the liver until women fainted. Doctors dismissed the symptoms as "hysteria."
One deformed liver from a tight-laced woman still sits in a London museum today.
Vanity, or a slow-motion crime?
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