SEA – SICKNESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8814, 1 March 1892, Page 3

SEA - SICKNESS.

TO THE editor. Sir,—l was much interested in the clever and sensible note on sea-sickness, in your issue of :ilst October. Up to a point I agree with the writer that the malady is mental. For example, if one is engaged in work which demands attention, or greatly interests, the sensation remains in abeyance. Charles Dickens, years ago, pointed this out in the " Uncommercial Traveller." He tells you to get a tumbler, nearly filled with water, and, when there is a good roll on, use vour best endeavours to keep it unspilled. Here we have attention fully engaged, together with physical exertion. Anything is better than to give in, and lie down, in a helpless, limp manner. Dickens again advises the ones likely to succumb to fix their eyes on a point— the bowsprit—and not lose sight of it. I don't believe any faith in monstrums will stave off seasickness, but I do believe in going on board with a clean bill of health, so far as bile is concerned. Take " Halviva," which acts energetically on the liver, a week before embarkation, and iu the majority of cases the means of escape is found. I have heard plenty of reliable testimony in favour of this remedy. Of course some will be sick, and such persons are usually bilious, and nauseated long before the relief of vomiting comes. They should ask a friend to pump one arm up and down, like a pump handle, when sickness will quickly ensue, and deathly nausea disappear.— am, etc., G. Kates Hunter. Philbeach Gardens, South Kensington, January 2, 1892.