Gapper describes
the case of a young man who was seized with loud and distressing
hiccough that never ceased for a minute during eighty hours. Two
ounces of laudanum were administered in the three days without
any decided effect, producing only slight languor.
Ranney reports the case of an unmarried woman of forty-four who
suffered from paroxysms of hiccough that persisted for four
years. A peculiarity of this attack was that it invariably
followed movements of the upper extremities. Tenderness and
hyperesthesia over the spinous processes of the 4th, 5th, and 6th
cervical vertebrae led to the application of the thermocautery,
which, in conjunction with the administration of ergot and
bromide, was attended with marked benefit, though not by complete
cure. Barlow mentions a man with a rheumatic affection of the
shoulder who hiccoughed when he moved his joints. Barlow also
recites a case of hiccough which was caused by pressure on the
cicatrix of a wound in the left hand.
Beilby reports a peculiar case in a girl of seventeen who
suffered an anomalous affection of the respiratory muscle,
producing a sound like a cough, but shriller, almost resembling a
howl. It was repeated every five or six seconds during the whole
of the waking moments, and subsided during sleep.
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