CAR SICKNESS
MAY BE CAUSED BY BAD EYES Following repeated requests for cures for car sickness, the National Roads and Motorists' Association • N.S.W.) instituted wide inquiries among medical men in an effort to aid sufferers. The consensus of opinion among doctors seems to be that there is no known cure for the trouble, but that it can be minimised. Sufferers are not so likely to be affected if they avoid rich and fatty foods before starting out on a car journey. One large factor, said a leading city doctor, seemed to be eye trouble. Many sufferers from car sickness have a slight astigmatism which tends to make visible objects elongated in a horizontal direction. This is accentuated when stationary objects are being passed by a moving car, and the result is a form of nervous nausea affecting the stomach. Frequently sufferers from car sickness are free of the trouble after having had their eyes corrected.
When the motorist complains that his car is losing power, the cause lies in a loss of compression. Power, which is heat, escapes in many ways from a worn engine, but the commonest avenue of escape in any engine is through badly adjusted valves.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21050, 29 December 1933, Page 4
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