The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-28
SEASICKNESS.
Facts and Theories of Interest to Travel
ers About Its Cause and Cure.


ers About Its Cause and Cure.
Seasickness is one Of the minor miseries
for which there appears to be no cure, az
thousands of returning travellers this sea
son will testify Professor Rosen bach, OF
Breslau, has made ten years study OF
this sickness and now gives to the public
some interesting facts and theories about
it, among them the following:
l. The malady cohlmences,as soon as the
vessel pitches that is, rotates on its trans
verse axis , The rolling, that is, rotation
on it's long axis, is less severe. but the com
bination Of the two is very unfavorable
g. The phenomena appear more quick ~
and are more severe the farther the patient
is from the middle of the ship. Persons
sleeping are attacked, also small children
and animals T. A moderate amount of
food in the stomach and small quantity
of alcohol is more likely to act as a pre-
ventive than an empty stomach. D. The
horizontal position on the deck acts in
some degree as a preventive. g. Anxiety
and apprehension precede sickness; a GER
tain exhibition of energy and resolution
may in short voyages and with slight YES
sci motion control the tendency to sickness.
Soft winds for example, sirocco), strong
odors, etc, are unfavOrable. I. There are
two categOrie5 of the affection dependent
on individual predisposition, in one the
head, in the other the abdomen is princi
pallv affected Cases where both are affect
ed are common.
As to the cause of seasickness Professor
Rosenbach accepts the theory of dis
turbed equili brium," according to which
the permanent disturbances of equilibrium
act as painful irritations to the contents oi
the skull and of the abdomen, and are thus
the causes of the phenomena The author
thinks that he has discovered a new ex
PLANTATION of the action of external move
ment impulse by the phenomena observed
in rapid elevators 1t Is found that in as
cending with the eyes closed, no noise be
ing heard, there is experienced a peculiar
feeling at the epigastrium which goes of
during the rise, say, of four or five floors
but reappears the moment the elevator
stops The same thing occurs when the
elevator moves downward. There occurs
a sudden movement and sudden arrest OF
the movement, and the effect of this in pro-
ducinC the epigastric disturbance is held tC
be analogous TO the effect of the motion in
the vessel at sea
movement to another movement in a diff
ferent direction is assumed to be the cause
of the disturbances experienced Thus the
painful sensations IN seasickness, In the
act Of swinging. in the oscillation liable to
occur in rapid railway journeys, agree in
this. that the peculiar symptoms of irrita
ton, the distressing feeling at the epigaS
trium. the cold sweats. the general feelinl
[ of illness and the headache, appear at the
/ moment when the direction Of the move
ment changes.
The autF7r considers that the only rea
! cure is custom" He speaks favorably o.
certain medicines for very short sea voy
I ages-quinine. antipyriue, bromide salts
/ cocaine morphine, chlOral and other an
/ aesthetics. He advises that the Horizontal
/ position at middeck should be taken before
/ the voyage begins, and that a bandag'
/ should be tightly placed over the liver
whereby the intensity Of the motion Is di
/ minished and a certain degree OF fixatioI
| OF the abdominal contents promoted