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Posted By: Gibb Sahib
30-Sep-11 - 09:08 PM
Thread Name: The Advent and Development of Chanties
Subject: RE: The Advent and Development of Chanties
1895        Stedman, Thomas L., ed. Twentieth Century Practice: An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical Science. Vol. 3. New York: William Wood and Co.

Chanties inducing nausea!

Not much info here except to add to our sense of how familiar laypersons may have been with the genre in the 1890s, i.e. the phrase, in quotes, is "chanty song."

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A distinguished surgeon in the United States Navy, formerly associated with me on duty, who, although he had passed half of his twenty-five years of service at sea, was always a great sufferer from seasickness, assured me that he could at any time excite in himself feelings of nausea, by recalling occasions and circumstances of former attacks. Charteris quotes Henry Ward Beecher as relating how "many years after his first voyage across the Atlantic, he heard some sailors in a Brooklyn dock singing the same old 'chanty song' that he had heard when ill at sea, and that the mere listening to it produced the creepy feeling of seasickness;"
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