Sea Sickness.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 238, 21 January 1888, Page 3

Sea Sickness.

An emineit physician, the "New York. Times" stttes, has finally discovered tteh c cause of sea-sickness. A lack of blood in the brain if the origin of that distressing sensation which makes so 1 many people shudder at the idea of a voyage. It is the fault, primarily, of nature. When m,an was .plannedj! nature, Overlooked -the pdl- < sibiliby of his Vj ever gpjng^to.vaea, 1 and omitted to supply tHe. vessels of the brain with certain yalves .which would have obviated disagreeable effects. It is for this reason that some persons escape the sickness if they He down. The blood flows into the brain with greater ease if they keep horizontal;, but it is obvious that there remains another way by which more blood still might be driven to the parts whore is is mosb needed. Jf the passenger inverted himself — if, thajb is to say, be , stood on his head— j Wood would flow freely towards his brain. This, then, isa real remedy for sea-sickness. The treatment need not be long continued, ! the " New York Times,"explains. Twenty- 1 four* hours in ordinary cases would be enough — in some instances- more than enough—and -the journal goes' on to describe how passengers should be seized up by the feet and slung to stout spars. That the attitude may be at first a little cramped, is; admitted, but the spectacle of the world when viewed from an upside down position would be novel and diverting. Of course, what is called a determination -of blood to the head is not unattended by danger ; but -the inventor of the new treatment cannot think of everything at once. No system is absolutely perfect in all its details. There \s his cure, for sea-sickness. When called upon to treat apoplexy, he Will think how to cure that.