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Treatment and prevention: Abundant sleep; open air exercise (horseback riding and aquatic sports before sailing are recommended); proper bowel elimination; diet restricted to such foods as appeal. For vomiting in excess: rest; the prone position. "Iced brandy, champagne or strong coffee may be given through a drinking tube, but if nausea reasserts itself it is best to continue the administration of [certain drugs...
Painting Ghost. Prom the north of France had came a middle-aged coal miner, Augustin Lesage. In 1912, working as he had worked for 20 years far down in a black bowel of the earth, Augustin heard "voices," like those Joan of Arc declared called her, telling him to stop mining and go to draw and paint. Thinking himself feverish, he went home to bed, whence a power drove him to a city to buy complete painter's equipment, none of the names for which had Augustin ever before known. Back in his cottage, he painted-or rather...