| Index Entry | Actor, Dormer, Mrs, died of cancer caused by iron busk |
| Location | London |
| Citation | EG.773.048 10-17 Aug 1773:92 (6/264) London, May 13. A fashion has lately prevailed, of the ladies wearing a piece of iron within their stays, to confine them to a particular shape. This has been attended with fatal consequences, by the iron rusting; and it occasioned a cancer in the breast, of which Mrs. Dormer, of Drury Lane Theatre, died. |
| Generic Title | Essex Gazette |
| Date | 1773.08.17 |
| Publisher | Hall, Samuel and Ebenezer |
| City, State | Salem, MA |
| Year | 1773 |
| Bibliography | B0016211 |