A Practical Treatise On Sea Sickness Its Symptoms Nature And Treatment PDF Download

Excerpt from Sea-Sickness: Its Cause, Nature, Symptoms, and Treatment 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.