Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-10-01
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The Medical j ,urnul Intimates that fDriy.hy.
drops OF laudanum is a sovereign specific Il
gninst Sea 81 kness aud we have only Ia say,
that # il be true, the discovery of the remedy
should and will be lmm rial. Hefvey, who FIRST
found out tho circulation of the vital fuid,
and Jenner who taught mankinJ a preventive
of that most loathsome and disgu.ting of human
maladies, the Small Pox, were Doth mere SEQ.
lists and nostrum mongers, compared with the
Iilufrous Grenville 10 whom /, ascItbed the hea-
yen.born discovery we have just mention ed.
The man who can cure or prevent a sea iek-
ness. has already squared the circle We had
rather be that man than TO have Found out that
longitude. Indeed, ii strikes US that pain and
diseases of all sorts, Except pcrchance the
King 5 Evil and the malaJy of dishpp iuled
oflce.Saekng) are ms good as banished from
the world, If DIR. Grenville has rediiy inrented
a cure lor Sea Sickness, Tor W. should like 10
know what n man could not cure, VINO have
wrestlad successfully with that vi ainouj mon
ster nflhe deep" Did3t ever take a sea voyage,
gentle reader ? If thou hast, thou art ready to a.
gree with us in immortalizlng the Doctor and il
thou hast not, Sc myself down aud b, con-
tented, as a highly favored mortal albeit thou
hast had mai pox, plague. lepfosy. aud levers
of every type mentioned in the books, and of
every color of the rainbow, black, scarlet, spot.
ted and yellow, lis only him who has been sea
sick, that has the proper insight Of hnman ca.
unity. He who has held his head over the
ships side, to square certain unsettled accounts
with his stomach, while" the green and yellow
waves have glided by hi eiddy aud bewiIde9ed
vision, ill il seems TO The ~suffrrer one vast ocean
of nausea, of bile and Of death He who has
lain in his birth sweating IN all agonies Of ten
thousand aggregated qualmS, till he would feel
grateful to any kindh"arted sailor that would
throw him overheard, has seen that sailor offer
him the consolation of raw pork and mOlasses.
lie who has seen and felt all this. has The right
10 say he krows something : But lei no other
man presume for one moment 10 suppose that
he has any acquaintance with s1blnnary trou-
bles. He may have been N the gallics, or un-
der the |tortures OF the inqnisiiion-nay, he may
have been hanged and brought back 10 Ilfe by
a galyanic battery, but he has known nothing OF
genuine affection, if he never WAS seasick. We
once do lbted the supremacy oil this ocean NAL
adv over The blue devils, but there IS no sort
oil cpmparison-fnr the former, in addition, 10
its W Substantive and peculiar horrors, in
oludes the iatter-and mote too, for seasickness
produces devils of all colors. blue black, and
purple. 1t IS in short, a combination of all the
ills that " flesh Is heir to-" Let HIM who dis,
putes us double Cape IIatteras in a gale of wind.
Let him lie hulFetllng in his birth, for days, and
NIGHTS, and weeks, ia the exhaustion pf nature
throws over him n ftful and distempered sleep
in which he dreams n one moment that he IS
the identical Sanefo Panza of Ceryantes, and
actually tos ing in a blanket By blacksnards
and at the next, that he has become a top
which a schoolboy is in the act ofspinning Lei
him finally escape the perIls Of a saltwater
purgetory and go ashore alive, and fluid, for
a week after he is upon dry land, such an
inveterate vertigo in his head, that, after I'm
dressing, he waits for the bed to come rouad
again be fore he gets in But faugh our head
swims SO now, that we can'thold the pen strait
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