SMALL HOPE FOR THE SEASICK
“ It is as natural for the novice to be seasick in stormy weather as for the toddler to stumble or the inexpert golfer to foozle his drive,” writes Dr John Hill, surgeon of the liner Aquitania, in the British Medical Journal. Dr Hill offers no hope of a panacea against seasickness, which hope he describes as but an idle fantasy. But he says one cannot expect to get one's sea-legs by lying in bed. He offers one shred of helpful advice. “It will often be found that some measure of harmony can be restored to the discordant perceptions if the sufferer can be persuaded to concentrate all his attention on the horizon while walking, keeping a blind spot for the intervening waves.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23082, 7 January 1937, Page 11
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