The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-19
Sea Sickness.

| l. Do not go on the steamer in q
nervous or exhausted condition; have
every preparation made at least twenty
four hours before starting. This direc-
ton is particularly important for ladies'.
2. Eat good hearty meal three hours
before sailing, Of wholesome food.
3. Select berth as near the center of
the vessel as possible. In going to
Europe it is better to be on the star
board side, lad in returning on the port
side, which will be the sunny side.
4. Go on board sufficiently early to
arrange such things as may be wanted
for the first day or two, so that they may
be easy of access then undress and go to
bed before the vessel gets under way.
The neglect of this by those who are liza
BILE to sea sickness is sure to be regret
ted. II subject to nausea retain the hor-
izontal position the entire passage if
necessary.
s. Eat regularly and a. heartily as you
can land there is nothing that can be
taken better than light chicken broth,
but without raising the head for at least
one or two days. In this way the habit
of digestion is kept up, the strength is
pre- served, while the system becomes &C
customed to the constant change of
equilibrium.
6. On the first night out take some
mild, laxative medicine, and be careful
to keep the bowels open for the remain
der of the voyage. Constipation not
ONLY results from sea sickness, but in
turn aggravates it.
7. After having become so far habit
uated TO the sea as to be able to take your
meals at the table and go on deck, never
think of rising in the morning until you
have eaten something, as plate of oat-
meal or cup of coffee or tea, with bis
cult. The Edinburgh biscuit can be
taken by the most delicate. Ii subse-
quently during the voyage the sea should
become unusually rough, go to bed be-
fore getting sick. 1t is foolish to dare
anything when there is no glory to be
won and something to be lost.
8. Do not make the mistake of trying
to keep on deck-it is mistake to sup
One-it is often prematurely injurious,
and has sometimes resulted fatally.
8. The improvement in health from q
sea voyage is, as a general rule, proper
toned to the freedom from sea sickness.
10. Persons with depressed vital pow
ers and with impaired and feeble diges
ton should avoid exposure from sea
sickness.
IL. Medical art is powerless to cure, but
can greatly mitigate and relieve its
sutferings.
II. The phenomena constituting sea
sickness are purely physical-it is not
confined to the human race, as animals
are subject to the same malady.
ID. Some persons can never become
habituated to the sea. Some naval Off
GERS are always sick in rough weather.
IA. The cause of it is due to the sud-
den and recurring changes of the rela-
tions of the huids 10 the solids of the
body and the nervous Disturbance which
result from these changes. The liquids
contained in their vessels, as we'll as the
solids of the economy, obey equally the
laws of gravitation when the body IS sub
jected to alternate movements OF ascent
and descent. The blood by its fiuidity
yields more readily to the influence OF
descent. and less easily than the solids
to the ascending impulse. Consequently
it does not return to the brain with the
same regularity as in the case where the
body remains stable, and leaves 1t more
rapidly III the movement Va "o'oo"''
There result as to the circulation alter.
nations of affiux and delay in the arrival
of the blood to the different organs OF
the body, which disturb their functions,
and those of the brain especially, anala.
gous to that which follows the loss OF
blood in some persons who are nauseated
and vomit after vivisection.
The horizontal position, which to q
L.. sok~ wISov nm
of function, is the only approximate to o
cure.
Is. Rooms near the furnaces are OBJ
jectionable, not only on account OF the
heat. which is sometimes very disagreed
BILE. but also from the noise which at
certain hours is made by the donkey
engine in drawing up the ashes and
cinders.-[ DIR. Barker, Of New York.