The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-01

ANNhANN OAA AehAlNl ti1Ad NAASAl lithNNA SAA water the abrupt change from their usual surroundings gives rise to this re- flex.
 "The severity of the disease varies among individuals according to the condition of the nervous system. Some persons are much more impressionable than others, and they are the ones who suffer most A high-strung, nervous, hysterical person is the one most apt to suffer and yet this is not invariably so. Often a great, strong man, brag- ging every few minutes about being a tlrst-class sailor, is seized and brought so low that all he can do is to want to die.
 "Hypnotsm and seasiclness are pret- ty close cousins. A persons mentality has a great deal to do with the degree of his suffering and yet the condition itself when realized Is most horrible. The depression Is fearful and the physi- cal discomfort just as great. A popular idea exists that if you have seasickness once 1t gives immunity from a second attack, The man who sets his hopes on this belief is to be pltied. A person might cross the ocean twenty times a year and be seasiok every time Again he might cross ninety mine times with out missing a meal and die of nausea on his hundredth voyage. Sea voyages are like children--you never know how they are going to turn out, as far as your pneumo-g gastric nerve is concerned.
 "The condition of seasiclSness is greatly aggravated by surroundings,
 no orti pI, Lo
 sengers are much more apt to suffer than are those in the first and second
 cabins. Their close confinement be- tween decks, the narrow, stifiing quar-
 ters and unappetizing food are often such as would make a seasoned sailor sucsumb. It is in this class that the ships surgeon has his most aggravated and dangerous cases of seasickness.
 The patients will not assist themselves, and their general stupidity makes 1t
 very hard for doctor to do anything more than to hope thatskind nature or a
 rapid voyage will do what he has failed
 to accomplish"
 Do people often die of seasickness7"
 asked the reporter.
 T can't say that there are many
 deaths from this disease" answered the
 authority, but those who say, Well, I
 know I shall be very seasick, but there
 Is @ great deal of consolation in know
 ing that 1t can't kill me aont know what they are talking about. The great
 depression and the wearing, tearing
 strain on the nervous system, produced
 by the convulsive action of the abdom- inal muscles and the inability of the system 10 take nourishment, occasional ly result in death A ships surgeon, if not extremely careful, Is liable to have seasick patients, through their own ig-
 norance or religious prejudices, starve to death. What is meant by that? Just this. As a rule children do not get seasick. But I remember, when cross ing the ocean one summer, being called to see two children in the steerage who were very i'll. They were Polish Jews, and the mother and father were with them. They were all rather emaciated when they came aboard, and in three days the boy was in a comatose condi- ton except when reused by nausea, There was no medicine that would do him any good, and I soon saw that the l only thing was to nourish the little fel- ! low. I ordered the mother to give him beef tea and few drops of brandy at short intervals, but to my surprise he did not rally. I soon learned that it was part of her creed not to eat any | meat that had not been blessed by a rabbi, and so she was calmly throwing the beef tea overheard. We put the child in the hospital, the attendant fed l him every two hours, and before we 1 landed he was better than he was be- | fore he sailed Twenty-four hours more without nutrition would have | killed him.
 Never get in debt to your stomach, | is very good rule to follow when sail- 1 ing the seas. If well, person should | keep something in the stomach, and If sick, after each spell some food should | be taken for two reasons. First, there should be something there to give up, | and then the system is bound to absorb
 some of 1t, and in this way the strength | is kept up. There is absolutely no med icine on the face of the earth that will ! stave off a case of seasickness or make
 1t lighter Any doctor will give reams of testimony concerning the trouble he
 has had in fighting the numerous con l coctions recommended for this disea SC 1 Some people begin to dose for days be- l fore starting on a voyage. The only thing that is advisable is to give the 1 liver thorough overhauling and then
 make up the mind that no such thing as | seasickness can come to you
 | 'It is wise to stay on deck as much as | possible. Usually if person who is ] sick can be persuaded to go on deck
 and his interest can be aroused, he finds | himself we'll before he knows it. It's a | first-class remedy to get sick persor l right down angry. Again, if the suffer.
 CT can be engaged in race around the deck, he gets his sea legs and forgets al l about being sick. If a person is too Il for this, the best thing to do is tc | stretch out on deck with the feet higher l than the head and to eat cracked ice drink carbonated water or little vichy l and WhiSkey or champagne, and, above