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Show Health For All WHAT, NEVER? .Vell, hardly ever." Even the , 'n'of Gilbert and Sulli-Cap, Sulli-Cap, "Pinafore" occasionally rSrKl the pangs of sea sick-You sick-You don't die of this hor- rible malady. You only wish you would. The fact is that modern science instead of controlling-sea controlling-sea sickness, has caused it to become more widespread. More and more ways of traveling have been invented, and more and more people are going places. It is now knoNvn that it isn't only sea travel that brings on that awful feeling in the pit of the stomach. Planes, trains, and cars can also be the villains. We've had to change the name to "motion sickness." In wartime experiments thousands thou-sands of military personnel suffered suf-fered in the cause of science by being jounced in swings, spun in tilting chairs, flown through turbulent air, and bounced about in small boats in rough water. One result of their sacrifice sac-rifice has been a precise definition defi-nition of the signs of motion sickness: drowsiness, pallor, cold sweating, salivation and swallowing, swal-lowing, nausea and vomiting, appearing in that order. Among other things learned was the fact that motion sickness sick-ness is not "just .your imagination." imagina-tion." It's always caused by motion, even in the classic case of the old lady who got sick before the ship left the dock. Boats do move while tied up. Inexperienced travelers were found to be more susceptible, but really rough travel will make 9 out of 10 persons sick. The wartime studies . also sho'wed that motion sickness is a problem for the doctor and pharmacologist as well as for the engineer. Shock absorbers, gyros, and other devices to stabilize sta-bilize the equilibruim of vehicles ve-hicles aren't enotigh. Some types of motion are almost impossible to abolish mechanically. In recent re-cent years drug compounds have been found to protect the passenger pas-senger with some success, providing pro-viding him with an internal "stabilizer." Physicians today can prescribe several remedies almost as effective as the sailor's sail-or's favorite "go sit under a a tree." This column is sponsored, in the interest of better health, by: Duchesne County Tuberculosis and Health Association. |