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The pressure would be something like 1,5 pounds per square inch :~(((
From squashed ribs and hearts to displaced spleens, X-Rays of Victorian women wearing waist-clinching corsets show the discomfort they endured in the name of 'beauty'.
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Corsets also deformed the hip and pelvic bones, making childbirth difficult or even impossible. This explains a lot mother deaths in the 1800's.
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Organs can be displaced by a medical cause called Situs inversus where the hearts on the right and the liver on the left of the body.
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