Excerpt from Litora Aliena

Mwlsaloon brought to her stateroom by a sympathetic stewardess, and reappears, on landing-day, sleek, plump and rosy, with voluble comments on the horrible voyage. In such cases there is no remedy. Second, there is the bilious type, with headache and some nausea, chiefly affecting the soulful, dyspeptic curate, the fat old lady with gallstones, the thin, sallow co-cd, and other victims of chronic constipation. Here the remedy is ob vious. A sub-variety under this group is char acterized solely by occipital headache and seems probably due to unwonted eyestrain or ocular fatigue from glare, or possibly to the necessity of unaccustomed and continuous cerebellar co-or dination. The remedy in such cases is, of course, rest and suitable protection of the eyes. The third type is that due solely to excess at table, or in the smoking-room, usually affects men, is accompanied by profuse emesis, and proves self limited unless a future attack is induced by re peated indulgence. In short, seasickness is not a definite disease, but a symptom-complex, more often central than peripheral in origin, and due to the concurrence of various disturbing factors, often operative separately on land without harm, but capable, when occurring together, of upsetting the gastric equilibrium of persons functionally predisposed to such instability. There are some people who are seasick under all conditions, and some who are never seasick under any conditions. For those who fall in the intermediate class, the chief precautions advisable seem to be discretion in diet, abundance of fresh air and exercise, free catharsis, and great temperance in the use of alcohol and tobacco, rules of hygiene which might well be made general. It is perhaps needless to add that the writer of the present lines has never yet been seasick.

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