# @wild_history_uk on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Da-_TPYoOD1
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/68174039-wild-history-uk-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/7d13d61d23.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-07-19T18:18:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Wild History Shocking Stories From the Past (@wild_history_uk) — https://gondola.cc/wild_history_uk

## Caption

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?

#BritishHistory #UKHistory #VictorianHistory

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- **Likes:** 42
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## Tags

victorianhistory, britishhistory, ukhistory

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