PREVENTION OF SEA-SICKNESS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11478, 10 January 1903, Page 7

PREVENTION OF SEA-SICKNESS.

' Most travellers wiE wish well to the league that has been formed in France for the prevention of sea-sickness. In furtherance of this object a series of thirty-seven questions, five addressed exclusively to ladies, has been drawn up, and it is hoped that by the answers given by ail interested in 'the malady the fullest- information wi_ be obtained on the causation, symptoms, complication, and treatment. Dr. Mardern, tlie secretary-general of the "Ligue coiitre le Mai rie Mer,"' has also founded a journal cailed "Le Mai de Mer." He deals with the subject in a book entitled "La Same pour Tomes," in which having considered the predisposing causes of the malady, i;e gives the means by which in his experience it can be obviated and cured. On going on board the boat the traveller, he i»ys, should walk about, whistle, and sing, or, if he cannot sing, he should chat, or regard a distant fixed point through binocular glasses, since even the m«re act of holding glasses before the eyes lias been sufficient to pievenfc sickness. As a cure be recommends an alcoho.ic preparation of mint, becau.se the smell of that herb increases tlie activity of respiration.