Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1876 — A Cure for the Hiccoughs. [ARTICLE]

A Cure for the Hiccoughs.

A writer in the Chicago Tribune, speaking of the recent death of a man in Pennsylvania from a severe attack of hiccoughs, says: Now I have seen hiccough cured instantaneously on many occasions, and have cured myself, and I have never known the following simple remedy to fail. Whenever attacked by hiccough, get some one to stand behind you and place the forefinger of each hand in your ears so as to stop mem. Then between the finger and thumb of your left hand press the nostrils, in order to sfop breathing through them. In your right hand take a glass of water, and, while the ears and nostrils are closed, drink a good draught. This will instantly cure the hiccough. I am not aware that there is any particular virtue in the. water. I have seen the cure effected by a draught of ale or porter as well as water, and believe that a drink of any liquid, warm or cold, would have the same effect, although I have-always seen it used cold. I attribute the cure to the momentary stoppage of breathing; but, whatever the cause, mv experience for years has always proved it a success. —Ex Secretary Belknap on returning to Washington a few days ago found himself and Representative Heister Clymer the only occupants of a hotel omnibus. The two were onee old friends and classmates at Princeton College, but not a word was spokao by either of them during the ride.