SEASICKNESS PREVENTIVE
Eec. 9 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 20. • The drug hyoscine, which is used in childbirth to produce twilight sleep, prevented seasickness among 73 per cent, of soldiers who participated m experiments off the British coast, reports the "Lancet." Preventives selected from a large assortment available to travellers had practically no effect. Subsequent tests showed that hyoscine Tiad no obvious effect on the men's physical performance, vision, or shooting ability.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1944, Page 7
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