"Amongst those who have done much to improve the health of women, we must not forget to mention a lady who has been untiring in her efforts. It is not, perhaps, too much to say that Madame Caplin is the first who has ever made the corset tolerable in the eyes of a physician. The ingenuity of her design, and the skill with which she adapts her garment to the body, is deserving of all praise."—Dr. Blackwell's Lectures.
Madame Caplin received the only Prize Medal given for Corsets in the Great Exhibition of 1851.
"Corsets ingeniously adapted for giving support to the trunk without confinement of the thorax."—Report of Commissioners, Scientific Department, page 346.
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NOTICES OF THE PRESS.
Great Exhibition.—"We would direct the attention of our fair friends to a glass case exhibited by Madame Caplin, of Berners Street, No. 570a—scientific department—containing samples of Corsets fitted on figures of plaster of Paris, which we understand Madame Caplin has modelled herself. The perfect outline of the human body is so well delineated, that it proves at once the capability of that lady to adapt corsets to the most delicate figure, on scientific principles, which are the only ones adaptable to the human frame. We advise ladies to inspect the various inventions exhibited by Madame Caplin, and judge for themselves of the improvements made in this important department."—Morning Post, July 4th, 1851.
"At a recent meeting of the 'Athenée des Arts et Sciences,' the subject of Stays, and their action on the development of the female figure, was introduced by Dr. Caplin, who exhibited a
