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Show I Sufferers May Secure Remedy For Motion Sickness, Report Reveals 5ness became a major liability," the article declares: "It could have been disastrous, were the majority of a small'crew incapacitated incapaci-tated by seasickness. The Air For-1 For-1 ce obviously had to protect its men too, although the problem was not soserious for the Air Force as for the Navy and the ' Army, because it was able to ssreen its flying personnel more carefully. But the Army had .to ' grapple with motion sickness on ' the water and in the air. Men en-i en-i gaged in landing operations could 5be shot down like sitting ducks if they reached the beaches so seasick sea-sick that they hoped the enemv j would put them out of their mis j ery. Air-borne troops would be , useless if they were airsick when j the moment came to jump." I Hyoscine is the basis of the j new motion-sickness .remedy. j ! "If you are going on a long f ' journey, and if you have a tend- J ency toward motion sickness, y0ll '. will be wise to go to your doctor t and ask him to prescribe for you (C 1 - j i Motion sickness is becoming a thing of the past thanks to drugs utilized by the medical departments depart-ments of the armed forces during the war. "Today you can take pills, which, while they are far from a hundred percent efficacious, are quite likely to protect you from much of the misery of ocean sick- ( mess, an article in the November ' issue of Cosmopolitan magazine states in part. ; Grim necessity during the war J hastened the discovery of drugs I that will ease travel sickness. "The Navy used so many small i ships and enlisted so many men unused to the sea that seasick- |