Sea-sickness and how to prevent it : an explanation of its nature and successful treatment, through the agency of the nervous system, by means of the spinal ice-bag : with an introduction on the general principles of neuro-therapeutics / by John Chapman.

  • Chapman, John, 1821-1894.
Date:
1868
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    spinal ice-bag as a remedy^ and as she was about to take her daughter across the Atlantie she had a favourable opportunity for doing so, I therefore urged her to give the iee-bag a trial. On reaching Ncav York she wrote to me, Nov. 16, 1867, as follows :— We had a very rough tedious ocean trip, and Florence was quite ill notwithstanding the fact that ice to the spine W'ould arrest her sufferings very quickly. Owing to the fact that one of our stcAvardesses was a novice, and very ill herself a good part of the time, and that a much greater number of passengers than usual were ill, it was simply impossible to secure the ice pro- perly prepared with any regularity, and often not at all when most needed, though the child promptly gave notice when she thought the ice half melted. She invariably fell asleep soon after the application, and appeared to rest SAveetly, though retain- ing the charaeteristie pallor of sea-sickness to a marked extent, I feci sure that she might have been kept quite comfortable if we could have commanded the ice, because in the few instances that we w'ere able to have a second filling of the bag before the first was exhausted, there was very little vomiting and no straining whatever, or headache.” Case XXVIII.—Nov. 4, 1867. A gentleman wrote to me as follows :—Mrs. iced herself in crossing to Ostend, in June, but in eoming over from Calais to Dover the week before last, she was obliged to cross without her iee-bag. On the former oecasion [the longer passage] she escaped; on the latter, though she bore up very heroieally for an hour and a half, she succumbed at last. We had a rough passage.” Case XXIX.—Lady consulted me on account of sea- sickness in Nov., 1867, when about to eross the English Channel. She suffers greatly Avhen at sea, not only from sickness, but head- ache and mental obscuration or confusion. I prescribed the use of the spinal ice-bag, and direeted her how to use it. She ealled upon me again, July 30, 1868, and stated that by using the bag she was free from siekness while erossing the Channel, and that meanwhile her head remained painless and elear. Case XXX.—The lady whose report is given in the preceding ease also informed me that she lent her ice-bag to one of her lady friends who was about to eross the Channel, and who is a vietim to sea-sickness, from the distress of which she too was saved by means of the ice.