Word: seasickness
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There are almost as many seasick cures as there are sufferers. Last week Drs. J. Frank Pearcy and Daniel B. Hayden of the University of Chicago Medical School advocated a new one, in the American Medical Association Journal. They had been working on ears and eyes in hospital and laboratory; they noticed that lowering the normal blood pressure by means of sodium nitrite decreased the dizziness and "seasick" feeling of subjects after they had been rapidly rotated. Believing that seasickness is caused by overstimulation of the labyrinth of the ear by the constant changing motion of boats, they decided...
...Seasickness, worst feeling in the world, is no respecter of persons. Bolstering the semicircular canals with earplugs helps some people. Shutting the eyes also helps, since the sympathetic nervous system is also affected by optical unsteadiness. Drinking champagne is another remedy. But the best thing of all, for seasick prince, pauper or potentate, is to surrender completely and lie down. . . . Returning to Key West from Havana on the swift cruiser Memphis, President Coolidge lay down.* Secretary Wilbur filled an engagement the President had made to address the ship's officers and crew...
...Thou desperate pilot now at once run on Thy dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark...
...motorman opened a valve, admitting water to the mechanism which works the railway. Gently jolting, the car moved perpendicularly up the cliff, atop which is perched the glorious white marble Sacre Coeur. Courteous, the Abbe Loubiere pointed out the "sights." Awed by the splendor of the view, slightly seasick at the sheer drop below them, the three tourists barkened eagerly...
...having beaten the world's record for channel swimming with a time of eleven hours five minutes. Stalking into a tiny bar in St. Margaret's he had his double whisky and talked about the trip. Champagne, he said, had helped him. He had felt a little seasick but that had passed. Then a cramp took hold of his belly but he rubbed it away. He ate some lumps of sugar dipped in brandy. Once a wave swept him off into the darkness (he left Gris-Nez, France, at 8:27 P. M.) and he did not sight...