Sailor Hiccoughed For 48 Hours
When a stoker hiccoughed at full speed for 48 hours the captain of the ship sent an SOS from mid-ocean. On the advice of a doctor on another ship, they tried the stoker out on— Holding his breath, breathing in and out of a paper bag, eating sugar, drinking eucalyptus oil and vinegar and other well-tried remedies; but still he hiccoughed on, whether awake or asleep. , The doctor had the stoker transferred to his ship and tried carbon dioxide, phenobarbiton (sedative tablets) half an ounce of kaolin et morph, (which reduces bowel action), flexing of the thighs, holding down the cricoid cartilage in the throat, but all failed. On the fourth day he tried, as a last resort, amyl nitrite (inhalant), which worked like a charm and the hiccoughs stopped in less than a minute.
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Northern Advocate, 28 August 1947, Page 4
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