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Show Elevator Sickness. Kindred to the familiar troubles of seasickness sea-sickness and carsickness is the sensation caused by the sudden stoppage of an elevator; ele-vator; in some very sensitive people it is quite an unpleasant matter. According to a contemporary, the sickness can be avoided avoid-ed by observing simple physical laws. The stoppage of the elevator car brings a dizziness dizzi-ness to the head aud sometimes a nausea at the stomach. The internal organs seem to want to rise into the throat. All this comes from the fact that all parts of th.3 body are not stopped at the same moment of time. The feet being next to the car floor stop with the car, while other portions por-tions of the body continue moving. If the body as a whole can be arrested at the same time with the feet, there will be no sickness. This cap be done by placing the head and shoulders against the car frame. Then there will be no sickness. |