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

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    INTRODUCTION. In casting a glance at the numerous and vast researches undertaken in modern times for the purpose of elucidating the most complicated ques tions of medical science,—in dwelling for a mo- ment on the memoirs and monographs devoted to almost every disease offering a serious character, it is striking to remark how little interest has been comparatively taken in the study of sea- sickness—a disease dating back to the origin of navigation, that is, to the remotest antiquity, and which, according to universal testimony is a most distressing and painful malady. The extraordinary increase of navigation in recent times in consequence of the enormous tide of emigration from Europe to North America, California, and Australia, has wrought little or no change in the matter. The nature of sea-sickness,