DEATH FROM HICCOUGH.

Dunstan Times, Issue 777, 9 March 1877, Page 4

DEATH FROM HICCOUGH.

A death from hiccough is recorded in an English medical journal, which ■says:—“ l>r Elton was called to see a man named Henry Hoskins, a shite ■miner, aged <ls years. Hoskins said he went to work without breakfast, as die had not felt well. About eight •o’clock he had some cold water, and 'the hiccough set in violently at first 'hue subsequently he did not mind it much, thinking it would soon disappear. It did not, and ho then tried several local remedies, such as drinking •nine swallows of water, putting a cold piece of slate down his back, and such like cures. He became alarmed, for foe felt he was getting weaker every minute. It continued with renewed violence, and Hoskings was advised to go home by the ‘ boss.’ His wife made him hot coffee, and he tried to eat his breakfast, but his appetite was entirely gone ; he began to shiver, and the hic■eongh continued as bad as ever. The doctor was then sent for. He at once •administered twenty drops sal volatile, and fifteen drops ether in a wineglass ful of camphor water, but that did not do good. The doctor tried to divert the man attention from it, but to ■no purpose. Ho then gave the man thirty drops of laudanum, and drove back to procure other medicines. Still the hiccough continued, and in fifteen minutes after the doctor left the man ■was a corpse, Hoskins seemed to be perfectly hedthy in every respect. His throat swelled a great deal before he died and he seemed to strangle before his sufferings were over.”