MoDE OF PREVENTING SICKNESS AT SEA.

by t. FOSTER, NJ. b. F. L. $.
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BY II. FOSTER, M b. +. l.. :.


Observing i'll late number OF the monthly
Magazine an ingenious letter OH sickness at sea,
am induced 70 add my own experience, and few
,remarks on that distressing maady.-l agree with
your correspondent, that it is peculiarly oil mo-
ton which causes the nausea and vomiting so Oh
ten felt i'll moving vessel; but do not believe It
depends altogether OH the proper motion OF the
ship, SO much as on a. certain motion made by the
human body, induced by sort OF almost lnvolun-
ary endeavor 10 accommodate one self to the ships
motion. first found this circumstance out, by
perceiving that persons who held fast by ropes
or sides of the shp,-so as to move with all It's
motions and, in fact make themselves tor the
time, as 1t were, part of the moving vessel
were less subject to it than any others who sat
down at their ease on chair. | found also Tor
merly, before became accustomed to the sea,
that could keep off the evil entirely by laying
fast hold of the ruddcr or sides of any boat Ill
which happened to be, on the very first lndlca-
on Of nausea.


When boy, was particularly Liable TO SICK
ness from the motion of acoach, and then found
the same relief from holding fast by the sides OF
it, instead of swinging forward with the motion
of the carriage. Formany years have acquired
a habit of sitting or standing in such manner IN


moving vessel of any kind, as to m've entirely


with it, and thus by degrees lost entirely the dis


position to sickness. | have OF late years crossed


the channel six tunes, in all different sorts OF


weather, and over very differently agitaed surfaces
of the ocean, without ever experiencing the sick
ness.