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Show . j EAT HEARTY, MATES Canadian sailor tossing and rolling In the "bird cage" on the seasickness seasick-ness machine at the Montreal Neurological Institute. THE bane of seagoing men since the first canoe was launched, seasickness, can be cured in three out of four susceptible persons by means of a secret capsule discovered and now manufactured by the Royal Canadian Navy. Intensive research has been carried on in the Montreal Neurological Institute under Dr. Wilder Penfleld, and by the Royal Canadian Navy Medical Research Unit under Surg. Capt. C. H. Best, RCNVR. The new remedy is simply a pink capsule, in appearance much like an ordinary cold capsule. The formula for-mula must remain a secret and likely will not be available for civilian civ-ilian use until after the war. t Now It means that troops can be landed from invasion barges in good physical condition and ready for intense fighting. Most persons susceptible to seasickness develop an immunity after a few days at sea, but invasion troops are rarely in landing craft more than a few hours,. during which the remedy is of vital military importance. Preliminary Pre-liminary indications are that the remedy is equally effective against airsickness. The remedy is taken by mouth one to two hours before sailing or in rough weather, and is effective for eight hours. Additional capsules 'may be taken every eight hours Surg. Lieut. William 8. Fields, RCNVR, an American, has been actively ac-tively engaged In seasickness research re-search for more than two years with the Royal Canadian Navy Medical Research Unit. for two days, and may be repeated if the subject has not then found his "sea legs". As the result of thousands of position experiments and other research re-search the basic cause of seasickness seasick-ness is now known to be a maladjustment malad-justment of the equilibrium appa-v ratus in the inner ear, caused by its inability to adjust itself to continued con-tinued rapid changes in position. The extreme importance of avoiding avoid-ing seasickness is indicated to the tact that about 40 per cent of all persons are susceptible to it under normal sea conditions, and this percentage per-centage rises in rough weather. |