From Science, August 22nd, 1890, 16(394): 107.

Happily the practice of tight lacing, though still a fruitful source of illness, does not now occupy a foremost place among the recognized causes of death. The fact that it does occasionally stand in this position, however, should be noted by those foolish persons whose false taste and vanity have made them the suffering devotees of a cristom so injurious. It should be remembered also, that, whatever may be said of the more evident effects, the indirect consequences of thus tightly girding the body can not be exactly estimated. They can not be but hurtful. The veriest novice in anatomy understands how by this process almost every important organ is subjected to craming pressure, its functions interfered with, and its relations to other structures so altered as to render it, even if it were itself competent, a positive source of danger to them.Chief among the disorders thus induced are those which concern the circulation, and it is to the laboring incapacity of a heart thus imprisoned and impeded, both as regards to the outflow and return of blood that such disastrous consequences as occurred not long ago in a Berlin theatre must be attributed. According to The Lancet, one of the actresses, who had taken part in an evening performance, and then seemed to be perfectly well, was found next morning dead in bed. Subsequent examination of the body showed that death was due to syncope, and this was attributed to tight lacing, which the deceased had practiced in an extreme degree. As regards the persons immediately affected, the warning conveyed by this incident is obvious.