Sea-sickness : its cause, nature, symptoms, and treatment, derived from experience and strict observation / by Ml. Nelken.

  • Nelken, Ml. (Michel), 1811?-1861.
Date:
1856
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    have seen a few individuals of both sexes, who, notwithstanding a most evident nervous tempera- ment and delicate constitution, remained unaf- fected ; exhibiting no symptom of sea-sickness during the whole voyage. Children under two years of age seem to enjoy a kind of immunity in this respect. At this period of life, I observed sea-sickness only as a very rare exception; but from two years onwards, they be- come more and more subject to it, so that those past seven or eight years of age labor under the same predisposition as adults, and seem to be gov- erned by the same laws. With regard to animals, I found that dogs, sheep, cows, and chickens, are, like the human race, equally liable to become sea-sick; at the same time, I observed hogs, ducks, and geese to be un- affected, and was informed that such was gener- ally the case. Sea-sickness usually makes its first appearance with the rising of the winds. It increases in direct proportion to their violence, and decreases as they subside; with the return of perfect calm it disap- pears, the sick recover, but to relapse anew as soon as the sea becomes rough again. Many assert that one soon becomes accustomed