Seasickness and health : a manual for travellers / by Joseph Byrne.

  • Byrne, J. Grandson (Joseph Grandson), 1870-1945
Date:
1912
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Seasickness and health : a manual for travellers / by Joseph Byrne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE Seasickness is ordinarily looked upon as a trifling ail- ment. The number of deaths, however, that occur during or soon after a rough sea-trip, as well as the extreme suffer- ing and prostration that accompany the attack are suffi- cient to raise serious doubts as to the harmlessness of the malady and to arouse in travellers a natural curiosity as to what really may be the effects of seasickness, and whether it is “good for one,” as some maintain, or is, on the other hand, a serious affection which may immediately destroy life or leave its mark by way of more or less per- manent impairment of one or other of the vital organs. Nothing is more rational than that a convalescent, say, from nervous prostration or heart disease, who is about to take a sea-trip should inquire as to what the possible and probable effects of the journey may be upon his con- dition as a whole, and more especially upon those organs that were particularly involved in his recent ailment. But where can such a convalescent find assurance that a sea-trip will not injure him or aggravate his condition when nothing is definitely known concerning the actual causation of seasickness, or of its effects upon the various organs of the body in health and disease? It was considerations like these that induced the author some years ago to make an exhaustive study of seasick-
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