Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1905 — A Cure For Hiccoughs. [ARTICLE]

A Cure For Hiccoughs.

A young man pale and weak,, entered a physician’s office. “Doctor,” he said, “I have had — hie —I have had the hiccoughs for six hours. They are exhausting me.” “Let me see your tongue,” said the physician. “Out with it. Oh, farther out. Now holff 1 it out there till I go to the back office and get a depressor.” The physician disappeared. The young man, his long, pink tongue spread like a drapery over his chin, sat and waited with bulging eyes. “By Jove, he’s long.” the young man thought. “I wonder what can be lteeqing him.” “Just a minute,” the physician called from the next room. “Keep your tongue out. I’ll he there in a minute.” But it must have been five minutes before he returned. He was smiling. “Did you keep your tongue out all the time?” he said. “Yes,” the young man answered. “And you didn’t hiccough, did you?” “No.” “Them,” said the physician, “you are cured.” The young man, as a matter of fact, was cured. The protrusion of his tongue had cured him. The physician said that this treatment rarely, if every, failed to drive away the most obstinate attacks of hieeoughs. —Kansas City Journal.