Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1895 — BENDING BICYCLISTS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BENDING BICYCLISTS.

They Are in Great Danger of Sustaining Spinal Concussions. Accompanying picture is from rough pencil sketches made by Dr. E. H. Woolsfey, of Oakland. Cal., to prove that bicycle riders who bend over are in greater danger from concussion than

those who keep the back straight When the back is curved the vertebrae impinge upon one another at the ends.

STRAIGHT AND CURVED SPINE.