Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political

Consumption and Corsets. In the last week's reports of deaths in the city of New-York, I see that 12 of the cases were consumptions: in stating which Mr. Coleman makes the following important note:

This disease has, for several years past, formed a frightful proportion of our weekly obituary a proportion not to be charged to our climate solely. Among its victims at least two thirds are females, and we are authorised by one of the most intelligent physicians of this city to state, that in very many of the cases of female consumption that have come under his observation, the disease has been induced by the wearing of Corsets. Such an intimation from a respectable source should not be lost upon parents.