Clothes


Homeopathic remedies for the symptoms of Clothes from A Dictionary of Domestic Medicine by John H.Clarke….


Dress is not by any means a matter of fashion merely. A man’s spirit is “confined to what it works in,” in more senses than one. Ill-fitting clothes are not only objectionable from an aesthetic point of view, but very decidedly also from a point of view of health and morals. It is impossible for a man to be at his best if he wears badly made clothes, or clothes of wrong materials. The essentials of good clothing are the following:

I. The material should be good and adapted to the purposes for which it is required.

2. It should be of such a nature as to retain the bodily heat, whilst permitting the escape of perspiration.

3. It should be so made as to permit the freest movements of the chest, body and limbs, whilst at the same time fitting gracefully to the person. The female figure and the vicissitudes of woman’s life demand a plan of clothing different from that of man. As yet no accepted plan for allowing freedom to the lower limbs has been evolved, and so long as skirts are worn something in the shape of corsets will be required to carry them. But corsets may be made of woven and more or less elastic material, so as to allow proper freedom of movement to the breathing apparatus. The radical defects of corsets as ordinarily made is, that the ribs which Nature made free are taken as one of the fixed points for corsets to rest on. It is thus that the most vital zone in the body is deprived of its proper freedom of movement, and compared with this the constriction of the actual waist —the soft parts between the ribs and the hip-bones–is a venial matter. When corsets are worn at all they should be made of woven or elastic material that gives to the changes of form taken by the lower chest on deep breathing and after a meal.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica