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"The pear tree is out next door," you remarked, without a trace of animosity, and sobbing as one might hiccough. I suppose there are moments in the lives of all grown men when they come near to weeping aloud. In some secret place within myself I must have been a wild river of tears.
The attack must have been a severe one, as it is stated subsequently that the hiccough did not disappear until Aristophanes had excited the sneezing. Among the older medical writers Weber speaks of singultus lasting for five days; Tulpius, for twelve days; Eller and Schenck, for three months; Taranget, for eight months; and Bartholinus, for four years.
He caught sight of the decanters and the glasses on the library table. "Oh!" he said, and gave a laugh cut in two by a hiccough. "Come in, and shut the door, Alan," she said. "Let's make a night of it. I've got the materials here." She waved her hand toward the decanters. Alan shrugged. "I don't know what you mean." But he came forward, and slouched into one of the deep chairs.
There are somewhat similar dwarfs in other valleys of the Pyrenees, but the number is decreasing, and those of the Ribas Valley are reduced to a few individuals." Hiccough is a symptom due to intermittent, sudden contraction of the diaphragm. Obstinate cases are most peculiar, and sometimes exhaust the physician's skill. Symes divides these cases into four groups:
She was waiting for her brother to come down, as he was apt to do if he was in the house, after their aunt went to bed, to smoke a cigar in the library. He was in his house shoes when he shuffled into the room, but her ear had detected his presence before a hiccough announced it.
Corson speaks of a man of fifty-seven who, after exposure to cold, suffered exhausting hiccough for nine days; and also records the case of an Irish servant who suffered hiccough for four months; the cause was ascribed to fright. Stevenson cites a fatal instance of hiccough in a stone-mason of forty-four who suffered continuously from May 14th to May 28th.
Specific or idiopathic, in which there are no evident causes present; it is sometimes seen in cases of nephritis and diabetes. Neurotic, in which the primary cause is in the nervous system, hysteria, epilepsy, shock, or cerebral tumors. The obstinacy of continued hiccough has long been discussed.
On high occasions clergymen and bishops came, there to hiccough and weep over his blessed memory. Great lords and ladies praised him, newspaper writers praised him, ignorant fools in cottages praised him; and to high and low the crowning grace of his glorious charity was the selection of the softer, gentler, and too often downtrodden sex as the object of such tender care.
"Yes, sir," he replied, in a fairly steady voice the words that followed, however, being rhythmically interrupted by an aldermanic and most vociferous hiccough, which shall be omitted from this record "been reading about Pym and Barnard. Wasn't that awful when they saw the shipful of dead corpses?
Even in the dead hours of the night, the ears of those who watched late, or who could not sleep, were saluted with the same sound. The drunkard reeling home showed that he was still a man and a citizen, by calling "flare up" in the pauses of his hiccough.
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