mal de mer
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Talbot exclaims at one point, but the energy he might have devoted to metaphysical speculations on this insight pour instead into keeping himself upright on the heaving decks and avoiding mal de mer.
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Dr. Desnoes has been having the company ship-doctors gather data on the malady, known also as mal de mer and nausea marma, to which most people, even sailors, are subject.
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Aboard the Berengaria Queen Marie at first kept to her suite of staterooms, alleging mal de mer, though the crossing was anything but rough.
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Although the company shies from medical claims, French doctors often prescribe Perrier for mal de mer and morning sickness.
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Never having been before upon the sea I was soon in the throes of mal de mer, and the prospect was certainly not encouraging.
From My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War by Van Breda, P.
