Therapeutics of a Sea Voyage

own personal experience. In recent years its popularity has markedly declined, and it has become a comparatively rare prescription. The principal cause of this is to be found in the altered conditions of ocean travel. Passengers are no longer conveyed to India, America, or Australasia in sailing-ships, which take months of varied experience on the wide seas to reach their destination, but are hurried thither in half or a quarter of the time in crowded steamers, whose dates of arrival can be calculated with mathematical precision. This change has