How Effective is Each Drug in Preventing Motion Sickness?

Posted With Permission Of
The Aerospace Medical Association

Evaluation of Sixteen Anti-Motion Sickness Drugs Under Controlled Laboratory Conditions

Charles D. Wood, Ph.D. and Ashton Graybiel, M.D.
Naval Aerospace Medical Institute
Pensacola, Florida
Published In: Aerospace Medicine
Vol.39: Issue 12; Pages 1341-1344 (1968).

The effectiveness of a drug i.e, Motion sickness pill in reducing susceptibility to acute motion sickness is readily determined in a Slow Rotation Room (SRR) where the stressful Coriolis accelerations are under quantitative control and the experimenter and subject can collaborate under laboratory conditions. Fifty subjects were used, each serving as his own control in evaluating 16 representative antimotion sickness drugs.

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