MORE DRUGS FOR SEASICKNESS
WASHINGTON.
Air force medical researchers have found that benadryl, hyoscine, and artane are as effective in prevention of seasickness as dramamine, according to a preliminary report, the Defence Department reported here.
Recent experiments were conducted aboard ihe army transport General Maurnbjidsose, a 16,000-ton ship sailing between New York and Bremerhaven, Germany. Approximately 1000 troops acted as volunteer subjects on the round-trip voyage, different groups being used on each leg of the journey. It was found that benadryl, a drug found to be useful in airsickness but not previously tested on a large scale as a preventive of seasickness, was as efficient as dramamine. Benadryl, which is similar in composition to dramamine, has also been used in treatment of allergies, such as hay fever and hives.—Reuter.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23271, 5 June 1950, Page 8
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