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On a moving boat, the inner ear detects all the ups and downs and side to sides, but since our bodies move with the vessel, our eyes register stability. This confuses the brain, and it responds with a cascade of stress-related hormones that lead to nausea, vomiting, and vertigo.
felt a certain sense of self-actualization in the knowledge that we all have the power to shape the paths of our destinies if only we can settle on what we really want to do with the limited time that we have.
scorbutic patients’ connective tissues likely liquefied, old injuries would have reappeared and scars reopened. Reverend Richard Walter, the chaplain on George Anson’s round-the-world voyage, recounted how one sailor, upon “being attacked by the scurvy,” had a broken bone, which had been healed for some fifty years, dissolve
