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for summer travelert, m the CArwa
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mauacureforsea-eickness:
Considering the immense number
travelers by aca. and the lartre Drowr-
portion affected painfully by it, surely
it is remarkable that physicians have
not. paid more .attention to its pheno
mena and cure. Indeed i: has so long
been accepted as au inevitable aud in
curable disease, that I scarcely hope to
obtain much credence when I state that
Dr. Chapman, of Ixmdon, has within
the last two years pointed out iu causes
and its natural cure; and that 1 have
personal knowledge of iu efficacy in a
number of cases. .. II is theory docs not
auiuu 01 any lair condensation in my
short space ; bat its maiu points are thai
sea-sickues id all cases arises either
from one or all of the following causes :
1st. From cerebral movements. 2d.
From spiual movements. 3-1. From vis
ceral movements; and that these pro
ducing an uudue flow of blood to the
spinal axis greatly increase its func
tional activity ; hence the segments of
the spiual cord con uected with the
stomach and abdominal muscles origi
nate morbid influence quite sufficient
to induce vomiting.
The cure is simple enough ; a narrow
bag containing ice, broken into pieces
the size of a walnut, is to be laid along
the spine, from the lower angles of the
shoulder-blade to the lower part of the
hollow of the back) care being taken to
preveut the bag , slipping any higher
than the aqgles uamed. . The effect is to
counteract the accumulation of blood in
the nervous centers, aud In diminishing
their functional activity, as well a their
excito-motory power ihat is, their mo
tion without volition.
