Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On sea sickness / by J.R. Stocker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![I wuiikl cull attention, in tlio first place, to the gram- matical construction of this last sentence, and in the second to the complete refntation the letter gives to Dr. Beard's statements. It is needless to descant any further on these last two plans of treatment, except to say that the contrast between them is simply ludicrous. It is chiefly with the object of exposing the inconsistency of these and other like statements, and of calling public attention to the fact, tliat I venture to quote them. In addition to the popular and elegant preparations introduced of late for the relief or cure of sea sickness, we may soon expect to see another, -culled from the fertile brains of Drs. Betard and Hutchinson combined, and called by some such fancy name as the pro- prietor may delight in and consider attractive, which may perhaps be found exceedingly useful by those who possess- those two invaluable assistants to the Vis medicatrix— Ignorance and Faith. I shall now proceed to relate my own views about sea. sickness, and woidd ask my readers to remember that hitherto^ I have been speaking of the treatment, about which I intend to- make only a few remarks, based upon the results of my own ex- perience and that of competent and trustworthy observers. There are some diseases, the .specific fevers for ex- ample, for which there is no cure, nor is it in the course of nature that there .should be. But the system having once encountered them is, generally speaking, no longer liable to- their attacks. The only security against such diseases i.s- citlier to keep well out of their way, or by .submitting to them, to undergo what may-be called a personal experience of them, 'lliere are also, it cannot be denied, certain condition.s of the body which render it more or less susceptible to the influence of the poisons that engender them. They depend u])on age, sex, condition, occupation, temperament, habits, and the like. These conditions, when favorable, appear rather to establish a kind of tolerance than to confer complete](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22292573_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
