Note 41 — CLOTHES.
Reading edition
The following Observations on Clothing, are copied from the life of John Stewart, the Traveller, printed for Egerton, 1813, p. 9.—“I clothed myself at all times very warm, and by buttoning and unbuttoning I could accommodate to the sudden change of climate and season, and preserved thereby that equilibre of the secretions and excrements on which Health and Life depends; for clothing forms a factitious heat, as a substitute to the muscular heat, declining with age or sickness; on which action of heat vitality and all the other functions of vital organism depend.”