Seasickness
Sea voyagers who last week wanly looked at their stateroom ceilings or hung dejectedly over ship rails, wished from their hearts that everyone knew as much about seasickness and its prevention as does Dr. P. H. Desnoes, port medical officer at Manhattan for the United Fruit Co. Dr. Desnoes has been having the company ship-doctors gather data on the malady, known also as mal de mer and nausea marma, to which most people, even sailors, are subject. He as found that there are five theories for its...
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