Letters, Jul. 30, 1945

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Re TIME [July 7]: "Says the latest Journal of Aviation Medicine: People who get airsick may be able to avoid it by taking in advance a small dose of the drug hyoscine, also known as scopolamine, the so-called 'truth' drug often used as a sedative. In a Navy test of cadets so dosed, only ½ of 1% got sick even in bumpy air (normal: 7½)."

This bit of news is nothing new to confirmed, incurable seasickers and airsickers like the undersigned. Long before the war it was being put up as a proprietary remedy by the German firm of Schering & Glatz under the name of Vasano; and so far as I know is still being manufactured by the Schering Corp. of Bloomfield, N.J. under the same name.

It is the only remedy that I have found to be infallible and I ought to know. I have tried everything else at sea and in the air except suicide.

MARCIA DAVENPORT New York City

¶ Right is Airsicker Davenport. Vasano and the Navy's remedy are much of a muchness.—ED.

Jackpot

Sirs:

In TIME [July 2) an article on Monaco states that of all the changes wrought by war at the Casino, Prince Louis was most disturbed by "a U.S. and a French slot machine, both geared to take i-franc coins."

If the good Prince had possessed the keen scent of an avid slot-machine addict he would have been disturbed way back in 1933 — for I still recall as my most embarrassing moment standing at the cashier's window requesting change of a 10-franc note for my father who, though not the least interested in gambling, had discovered a dusty old slot machine in a forsaken corner of the famous Casino. I changed the lowly 10-franc note and Father broke the slot machine. Really!

MRS. FRED C. BEAL

Anniston, Ala.