SEASICKNESS CURE
NEW, YORK, Oct. 2. Dr Sydney Jones, ship’s surgeon of the Cunard liner Aquitania, who is making his final voyage before retirement after 36 years at. sea, is; convinced he has discovered the cause of seasickness and its cure. pi He has given his theory a long test, with the aid of other ships', surgeons, before taking the public into his' confidence.
He nas found that mal de mer invariably accompanies an acid condition. ,No person, lie says, will be seasick in the roughest weather if a week before boarding a. ship he “lives a decent, quiet life and takes ordinary dietetic and medical precautions against hyperacidity.” In this connection he frowns on hon voyage parties, since alcohol produces an acid condition; and he knocks on the head the old theory that champagne will cure maritime squeamishness. AATien seasickness comes he recommends an intensive alkaline treatment. In the thousands of cases he has treated he has found this the only successful method of counteracting hyperacidity. “Before this discovery,” he says: “There was little that I could do for stricken patients. Now I can have any of them eating grape fruit or oranges within a few hours of the treatment.’ -
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1929, Page 5
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