Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1895 — Transpiration Through Clothing. [ARTICLE]

Transpiration Through Clothing.

It is absolutely essential to health that the emanations from the skin pass easily through the clothing. This—which Is called “transpiration”—may be interfered with by an excess of clothing or by clothing of a very close texture. All who wear India rubber coats know how uncomfortable they are after they have been on a short time. Ordinarily proper clothing will not prevent transpiration, but an excess will interfere with it, and where too much clothing is worn it soon becomes foul, because the outside air cannot freely mingle with the gases from the body aud dilute them. Some wear the thickest and heaviest undervests which they can buy, and such people are generally the victims of frequent colds. Following the rule of light clothing they would be much safer from tha danger of exposure were they to wear two light undervests instead of one vary thick and heavy.