The chronic disorders of the digestive tube / by W.W. Van Valzah.

  • Van Valzah, William W. (William Ward), 1849-1929.
Date:
1893
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Credit: The chronic disorders of the digestive tube / by W.W. Van Valzah. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sickness is an e\ il ; it is never very g I at times *' (Burt«)in, nor salutary ' (Johnson). All the good effects of sea travel are obtained without it. It is a dangerous malady when organic disease of the hear! or blood vessels, or of 111 * * stomach, or of the nervous system, or of t he lungs, liable to be at tendril by haemoptysis, is present, [t nearly always delays or disorders menstruation, and, asiswel] known, has often terminated pregnancy. It sometimes persists for a variable period after the voyage, and some never completely recover their sense ofequi librium and of space. Bad treatment is the natural sequence of false views of causation. When we know how a symp- tom or disease is produced theimanagement becomes rational, though nol always efficient. To the consid oration <>f the preventive treatment a few practical suggestions will be added on the management of the attack. In the prevention of seasickness we work along two lines—the removal of the predisposing causes and the diminution of the action of the exciting ones. In each instance we strike at causation, and the effect of the double blow is commonly satisfactory. My attention was first drawn to this method of prevention by the comparative immunity from sea- sickness of patients who were under my treat ment, before and during the voyage, for someone of the many disorders and diseases of nutrition. So far my experience with the method has not been very great, only a few more than one hundred cases hav- ing been managed in this manner. The number of cases is only large enough to suggest rather than