Cowan speaks of a shoemaker of twenty-two who experienced an
attack of constant singultus for a week, and then intermittent
attacks for six years. Cowan also mentions instances of prolonged
hiccough related by Heberden, Good, Hoffman, and Wartmouth.
Barrett is accredited with reporting a case of persistent
hiccough in a man of thirty-five. Rowland speaks of a man of
thirty-five who hiccoughed for twelve years. The paroxysms were
almost constant, and occurred once or twice a minute during the
hours when the man was not sleeping. There was no noise with the
cough. There is another case related in the same journal of a man
who died on the fourth day of an attack of singultus, probably
due to abscess of the diaphragm, which no remedy would relieve.
Moore records a case of a child, injured when young, who
hiccoughed until about twenty years of age (the age at the time
of report). Foot mentions a lad of fifteen who, except when
asleep, hiccoughed incessantly for twenty-two weeks, and who
suffered two similar, but less severe, attacks in the summer of
1879, and again in 1880. The disease was supposed to be due to
the habit of pressing the chest against the desk when at school.
Dexter reports a case of long-continued singultus in an Irish
girl of eighteen, ascribed to habitual masturbation.
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