Word: hiccoughing
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Tics, or habitual spasms of certain muscles, are another nervous derangement of childhood. The child may shake his head, nod, frown, scowl, blink, grimace, twist his mouth, sniff, hack, swallow, cough, sigh, hiccough, wiggle his ears, jerk his limbs, scratch himself. Tiqueurs are seldom less than six years old. They usually also suffer from personality disorders?restless-ness, self-consciousness, over-ambitiousness. Curing a child of a tic, Dr. Kanner finds is a difficult task. The more a child's attention is called to his tic, the less likely the tic will disappear. Overactive children should be given quiet recreations...
Last week one shrewd doctor decided that she had hiccoughed so long she had forgotten what it was like not to hiccough, was therefore psychologically incapable of helping herself. He gave her a strong, nauseating drug, put her to sleep. When she awoke her mind was so occupied with her new, counter-irritating misery that she forgot to hiccough, was cured...
...Because hiccoughing is an involuntary interruption of regular breathing, its victims seem comic to beholders and auditors. Sometimes the victim gets fun out of the experience, as in the story told about Actress Beatrice Lillie, last year at the gambling casino of Juan-les-Pins. When she sat down at a chemin de fer table, she began to hiccough, loudly. Before she could stop the croupier impassively shoved 150,000 francs to her. He thought that she had been barking "Banco...
...Hiccough is produced by spasms of the diaphragm and simultaneous closing of the vocal apparatus, the glottis, in the larynx. As breath is sucked into the lungs, it breaks through the closed glottis and produces the queer sounds of hiccough...
...taken an emetic, or gulped down some ice cream or cracked ice ; or tried some chloroform, musk or morphine; or put a hot water bottle on his stomach or cervical spine; or merely stuck out his tongue as far as he could strain. These are various means of calming hiccoughs. The hiccough results from a spasm of the victim's diaphragm, which suddenly descends and causes the lungs to suck in a draft of. air. The air strikes against the partially closed glottis to cause the characteristic ripping cough. Frequent attacks of hiccoughs may accompany certain nervous and gastric...