In his diplomatic autobiography—diplomatic in the professional sense—Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen
refers to a member of his staff in China as " the world's worst sailor." I doubt that. I know of a competitor whom I could put forward with some confidence. But for the one and the other, and everyone else in like case, there would seem to be hope at last. If the new drug dramamine, which has been put to exhaustive tests in—or rather off the coasts of— the United States does half what is claimed for it life is going to contain new satisfactions for some millions of people. For while nothing is more pleasant than sailing on the ocean nothing is more unpleasant than the effects it sometimes has. I have always envied those well-geared persons who regard a sea-voyage as a rest-cure. If it can now be that for everyone the total of nervous strain in the world should diminish sensibly. Hitherto hyoscine, and pre- parations in which it predominates, have held the field. It has yet to be demonstrated that dramamine is definitely superior. But recent experiments seem to favour dramamine.
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