The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-27


suffer from its pangs. Even animals
feel it. and feel it sorely. while some
persons never outgrow it, no matter
how often they go to sea-
Sailing out of port on regular trips
are more than half a dozen we'll
known navigators who pay tribute to
Neptune" as it is euphemistically ex-
pressed, every time they strike deep
water. The attack does not last long
with these victims, but it is doubly
conspicuous because of their position.
AS every one knows, seasickness is
caused by the motion of a vessel at
sea, but just how the motion acts on
the bodily organism Is still an open
question.
According to some authorities, the
violent and unaccustomed movements
of the stomach produce gastric dis
| turbances, and these disturbances
cause vomiting. By others the theory
is advanced that the center of disturb
ance is the central nervous system,
which becomes demoralized by the
strange impressions striking the eyes.
Circulation in the medulla oblongata
is impeded, say still others, with the
result that a sort of storm develops In
the nerve controlling the stomach.
Finally. others aver that the magma
ton is much to blame, or that the
brain itself is shocked, or that muscu-
lar fatigue, caused by efforts to main
tain ones balance, Is the real cause
OF the trouble.
On the whole. probably all Of these
things help At all events. it makes
no difference to the sufferer, and you
may select your own cause when yot
next travel on the briny.
J But the first symptoms are some
what alarming. Comes a faint sense
} of giddiness; creepy. chilly feeling
of light-headedness Outlines a per
: spiration breaks out on hands and fore
head; your stomach seems sinking
5 and then comes nausea.
: Regardless of the direction of thu
t wind. the victim rushes to the side
= of the ship and gives up his last meal
S Tears. fill his eyes and his face grows
: white and his whole body becomes
cold and clammy
Hanging painfully to a stanchion
the sufferer wots not the passage Q
time nor cares for the coming
eternity. He is paralyzed, overcome
by the pangs of nameless. uneartnl.
terror Then kind hands lay holt
on him and lead him to his cabin
where he lies in most abject miser.
for periods varying from "a hours Z
the length of the voyage, be 1t ST.
DAYS or sixteen.
| Sometimes. however, nausea doe
not develop, and this kind of sickness
is described by its victims as eve
| worse than that in which one give
I'D all within him. AS the neuseate
sufferers say that their form is tn
worse. the question is still open TO
| discussion.
At all events, no pang known to tel
| ra firma equals in sheer terror an
Il misery the despairing, lost sensatlo
H of the seasick First, say those VII
\ know whereof they speak. the vlctlI
Il harbors a horrible fear that he is 81
u ing to die In the next stage he o.
Y comes apathetic and doesn't care
II picayune whether he dies or not
h the third stage he hopes that he wi
! die and prays for surcease from su
n fering.
please throw ME overheard" is tn
plea frequently urged upon sea ca
taias by unhappy sufferers. and at tn
II time they really mean it.
Ie Finally. the victim fears that he wi
IS not die, and longs for strength to el
il able him to rush to the side and hu
" himself into the depthless ocean.
g, Far from being a dangerous ami
t. ton. however, seasickness is benetici
In many cases, and large ma1ori'
of travellers are improved in healt
r. rather than harmed, by the comple'
as rest and total abstinence it enforce
lie People who never are seasick !
varsab,y eat too much at sea. the sal
crisp air whettinS their appetites al