Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1910 — CAR SICKNESS. [ARTICLE]

CAR SICKNESS.

How It Differs from Seasickness— Traveling with Eyes Closed. Car sickness is a very disagreeable affection, something akin to seasickness and yet differing from it in several particulars. In seasickness it is rare to find the very old or the very young affected. If children are seasick they are very quickly over it, and running about at play as usual, but a baby will sometimes suffer from car sickness in its baby carriage, and the very old are not immune. The symptoms of the two disorders are very much alike. They consist of pallor, quick pulse, clammy skin, giddiness,. nausea and vomiting. Women are more subject to car sickness than men, and this is equally true of seasickness, and one strange feature of car sickness that has been noted by physicians is that it is frequently handed down through the women of a family from generation to generation. If ani individual is immune all through childhood and early life but develops car sickness as an adult the fault will probably be found to rest with the eyes and the way to avoid it is to travel with the eyes closed, or better still, to start with properly fitted glasses. It is easy to understand why this should be so. When the eyes need glasses the whole nervous equilibrium of the body suffers, even under the best conditions, and when to this struggle is added the vibration of the cars and the temptation to watch passing scenery through the windows the turns into active revolt of the whole system against imposition. The proof that car sickness and seasickness are not quite the same thing is found in the fact that a person may be a good sailor and yet suffer dreadfully with car sickness, and vice versa, while its occurrence in babies would go to show that the sense impressions, that is to say, the impressions gained by the ear, the eye or the nose, are not at the root of this disorder, because in very tiny babies the senses impressions are undeveloped or at the best very feebly developed. As a further proof of this car sickness often comes on during sleep, and when this occurs the eyes of course ire not the cause in that particular case. The symptoms of car sickness may be of a most appalling violence, the state of collapse being so ex'reme that death is often feared. It is comforting to know that this fear is unfounded and that although people may be dreadfully ill they rarely if ever sueCUUk.—YOUtli’fi oanMniaa