SEA TRIPS AS A CHANGE,

North Otago Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 7265, 13 October 1891, Page 4

SEA TRIPS AS A CHANGE ,

When exhaustion has gone so far as to produce a condition of positive breakdown without any appoint organic lotion, a sea trip is in moat cates to In preferred to »ny alter na'ive. The patient hft£ the advantages of perpetual carriage exercise without ihe irksomenew of restrained potture, and without its limitation to a few* hours of aun■hine. The chilling effects of n'ght air and alterations of dryness and dampness of atmosphere are almost unknown at tea ; and a reoovery may in aucb ciees usually be predicted aa following almoit certainly a few weeks on ehip board, But it is to the middie-aged man more than all othera that a holiday at eea is to be recommendod. la the great majority rf caees a man who leads an active business or professional life selects his form of holiday as much for what be gets awny from aa for wbat he gele to. Tbe desire to <?et out of harnep* and t} escape from the weary treadmill ot the recurring cares from which few active men are free ia never better met than by a voyage. To such men exercise is a secondary consideration. Fresh air and the incidents that vary the monotony of eea- ] fe are suffioen" to give all tho benefits that any chanse c»n give, whilst the gentle exercUe of walking the deck is enfficient 10 stimulate the appetite and promote digratioD, Tho impossibility of doing anything moie energetic than walking the deck is a Bafo°uard to persons of this class; for, after tho first flash of youth ia over, the sudden tran■ition from a sedentary life to severe exertnn is more apt to be attended with rislc than with benefit, — London Medical Recorder.