Ludovic O'Followell
{{Short description|French writer and doctor (1872–1965)}}
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Ludovic O'Followell (born 1872 in Portslade - 29 January 1965) was a French medical doctor and writer.{{Cite book |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb127366471 |title=O'Followell catalogue|access-date=5 March 2024}}{{Cite web |title=Visionneuse - Archives de Paris |url=https://archives.paris.fr/arkotheque/visionneuse/visionneuse.php?arko=YTo2OntzOjQ6ImRhdGUiO3M6MTA6IjIwMjAtMDQtMjkiO3M6MTA6InR5cGVfZm9uZHMiO3M6MTE6ImFya29fc2VyaWVsIjtzOjQ6InJlZjEiO2k6NztzOjQ6InJlZjIiO2k6NDk0OTtzOjE2OiJ2aXNpb25uZXVzZV9odG1sIjtiOjE7czoyMToidmlzaW9ubmV1c2VfaHRtbF9tb2RlIjtzOjQ6InByb2QiO30=#uielem_move=-765,78&uielem_islocked=0&uielem_zoom=116&uielem_brightness=0&uielem_contrast=0&uielem_isinverted=0&uielem_rotate=F |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=archives.paris.fr}} He is best known for his work demonstrating the effects of corsets on the shape of the rib cage with X-rays. Following the publication of Le Corset in 1905 and 1908, he encouraged a less severe design of corset and wrote a regular column for the corsetier magazine Les Dessous.{{Cite web |title=In 1908, a Doctor Used X-Rays to Highlight the Damaging Effects of Tight Corsets on a Woman's Body » Design You Trust |url=https://designyoutrust.com/2022/04/in-1908-a-doctor-used-x-rays-to-highlight-the-damaging-effects-of-tight-corsets-on-a-womans-body/ |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=designyoutrust.com}}
Publications
- Le Corset (1905)
- Le sérum marin (impr. Alcan-Lévy, 1906)
- Le Corset (1908){{Cite book |last=Ford |first=Richard Thompson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dNpVEAAAQBAJ |title=Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History |date=2022-01-18 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-5011-8008-8 |pages=131 |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Goldberg |first=Johanna |date=29 May 2015 |title=Ludovic O'Followell |url=https://nyamcenterforhistory.org/tag/ludovic-ofollowell/ |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=Books, Health and History |language=en}}
- Des Punitions Chez Les Enfants
- Pauvres veuves, pauvres malades, pauvres vieux... (Arrault, 1936)
- {{cite book|last=|first=|title=L'humour et les humoristes|publisher=Imprimerie E. Majel|year=1938|isbn=|location=Largentière|pages=}} Accessible in full text on [https://nordnum.univ-lille.fr/ark:/72505/a011404912627mw058c/52c84e7e95 NordNum].
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=tninHAAACAAJ La Vie manquée de Félix Arvers] (Humbert, 1947)
- [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/370074360 Déshabillez-vous ... ou soixante ans de la vie d'un médecin], Largentière: Humbert et Fils, 1951.
- [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/493662307 En levant les yeux], A. Fauvel, 1955
See also
References
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= Further reading =
- [https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Corset_(1908)/02 Le Corset (1908), chapter 2 (in French)]
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Category:20th-century French physicians
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