I suspect that they would do what I did for a few years before the reconstruction. You make a pouch in a soft fabric and fill it with some kind of wadding. I used mine as a pincushion at events, while wearing it. Something remembered to this day
Gunvor On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 at 09:02, Lavolta Press <[email protected]> wrote: > https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26602991/ > > > Mastectomy With Tears: Breast Cancer Surgery in the Early Nineteenth > Century > > http://www.doctorsreview.com/history/breast-cancer-history-medicine/ > > > A terrible disease, a worse treatment > > Fran > > Lavolta Press > > www.lavoltapress.com > > On 7/10/2020 11:09 PM, Elizabeth Jones wrote: > > Do you have documentation of mastectomies being performed in the > > 1860s? I'm not great on my knowledge of historical surgery techniques > > but I know anaesthetics were fairly primitive in those days and > > breasts are very vascular so not the easiest surgery to perform. > > I've seen various advertisements for bust improvers to help women who > > wanted to increase the apparent size of their bust but that's mostly > > attached to corset covers. I've been told that a stocking full of rice > > or sawdust does a good job of imitating the squishiness of breast > > tissue for dressmakers' dummies, it's at least a period plausible > > solution. > > > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 4:37 AM Pinner, Kathryn <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Does anyone know what a woman in the 1860s would use to fill in her > corset when she had a breast removed for cancer? > >> > >> > >> Kate Pinner > >> > >> Costume & Scenic Design > >> > >> Tech. Coord., Kelsey Theatre, MCCC > >> > >> 609-570-3584 > >> > >> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> h-costume mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://indra.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > _______________________________________________ > > h-costume mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://indra.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > https://indra.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] https://indra.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
