Sea-sickness and how to prevent it : an explanation of its nature and successful treatment, through the agency of the nervous system, by means of the spinal ice-bag : with an introduction on the general principles of neuro-therapeutics / by John Chapman.

  • Chapman, John, 1821-1894.
Date:
1868
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    The section on the Physiology of Vomiting will he found, I hclicve, to throw some new light on the ohsciirc and difficult question of the parts played hy the medulla oblongata and spinal cord respectively in the process of vomiting, and will, I think, suggest the direction in wdiich further research is most likely to be rewarded by additional knowledge of the subject. The number of cases given in proof that the spinal ice-bag will prevent or cure sea-sickness might have been much greater than it is if since the publication of the first edition of this book my attention had been especially directed to the subject; but during the intervening four years I have been chiefly occupied in investigating and working out the applicability of tlie neuro- therapeutical method to the treatment of disease in general, and particularly to the treatment of diarrhoea, cholera, and those three extensive groups of terrible and hitherto generally incurable maladies—convulsive, paralytic, and neui’algic affections. The reports of the cases of sea-sickness treated by means of ice which have been added to those published by me in 1864, have been mostly communicated to me by the kindness of friends or patients : happily, the success of the treatment is now so thoroughly estab- lished that no additional experiments by myself or others arc needed for this purpose; but as every additional proof of the reality of the discovery of a remedy for sea-sickness, which until treated by means of the spinal ice-bag had utterly baffled all the efforts of physicians, will be an additional force with which to convince the travelling public that that terrible malady need be endui’cd no longer, I venture, on public grounds, still to ask those who make use of the remedy to be kind enough to report to me as exactly and circumstantially as possible the results of their experiments. By thus helping to hasten the general adoj3- tion of an expedient by which an unspeakably vast amount of human misery may be prevented, they will be public benefactors. John Chapman. London, 25, Soheeset Steeet, Postman Squaee, W., Oct. 6,1868.