School Boy Who Cannot Stop Sneezing
Received Tuesday, 11 a.m. LONDON, May 16, Over 100 telegfams and phone calls suggesting cures poured in today on Michael Hippiesley, a 14-year-old school boy who cannot stop sneezing. For nine diays he has sneeied fevery few secOnds aiid was still at it tonight. It is estimated that he has sneezed more than 136,000 times. A hypnotist put the boy into a trance for half an hour and the sneezing stopoed, but it started again when he was awakened. Doctors are now plamiing to start a course of manipulative surgery and if that fails they will consider putting the boy ih an oxygen tent. The cures suggested range from drinking champagne to swallowing castor oil and sucking peppermints.
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 May 1949, Page 5
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