A letter to the patentee concerning the medical properties of the fleecy hosiery / by William Buchan, M.D., author of Domestic medicine.

  • William Buchan
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MDCCXC [1790]
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Credit: A letter to the patentee concerning the medical properties of the fleecy hosiery / by William Buchan, M.D., author of Domestic medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    making thefe changes; but even here Nature has not? left us without a guide, fhe efFefts this purpofe by flow gradations, and never ftarts fronn one extreme to another. Though man cannot copy her exaftly in this refpeft, yet it is in his power to avoid all great and fudden tranfitions. Thofe who heap on loads of clothes on the approach of winter, and are fo impru- dent as to throw them ofF on the fir ft appearance of Ipring, have only themfelves to blame, if the confe- quences prove hurtful. There is indeed a great fource of deception in our feafons ; fometimes the winter fets in with all its rigour before it is expe6led j at other times it continues mild throughout, and there is occafion for very little addi- tional clothing, even to the delicate. But the moft irregular feafon, in this country, is Ipring. We have often in March, or April, a few days fo warm as to make us believe that fummer is arrived, when all of a fudden it becomes more intenfely cold than in the middle of winter. Indeed December is fometimes mild throughout, while every day of June is cold and wet. This irregularity of our feafons, renders it very difficult to lay down particular rules for regulating tlid clothing of invahds. It is their bufinefs, therefore, to watch the changes of the weather, and, as far as they conveniently can, to countera6t their influence, by fuiting their clothing to the temperature of the air* The hardy and robuft have indeed iefs to fear from the changes of weather j but there is no perfon £6 ilrong as to be wholly fuperior to their influence^ A 2 and
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