European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 14, 1980 the stars and stripes Page 11 the manicures for by Jane see White associated Pressi n horses they re called the  for 58 years they be prevented an Iowa Farmer from swallowing solid food. Aristophanes cured his by tickling his nose until he sneezed. They plagued Pope Pius Xii in his last Days. In old English they were spelled Hicket the swedish pronounce them Hickling or  though the proper medical term is sing Ullus we commonly describe them by their sound hiccups. Popping Opas they do from nowhere out Osbelt in a sing along or As shrill punctuation in conversation hiccups can be comical. Everyone has it pet cure care tint absolutely never Falls. Often the treatment is More absurd than the malady. Wait them out with a Brown paper bag Over your head arrange a sudden fright Knock Back an Eye watering shot of vinegar sit quietly firmly gripping your out thrust Tongue Between thumb and Index Finger. Hippocrates warned that if sing Ullus Supervene on excessive purging in those of advanced years it is not a Good  he recommended an induced sneeze As a  medieval times cures like these were touted Pulve Rize and eat the yellow membrane of a Hen s stomach press the pulse hard and stretch your arms above your head rub your Little Finger in your ear if All else fails hold Masterwork Root in your hand. Undy hiccups simply atop he Way Bey started but when hiccups linger when no cure works when the spasms go on. And on. And on. For hours Days yes even years then hiccups Are a special sort of  Charles Osborne an 86-year-old Anthon Iowa Farmer who holds the guinness Book of world record chronic Hiccup ing title. Osborne came Down wit hiccups while slaughtering a 350-Pound hog in 1 922 he still has  Days Are worse than others. Sometimes it comes 40 times a minute. I have to run everything i eat through the blender i can t eat heavy food. I be Learned to control the noise in the Day but at night when i sleep you can hear me All through the  the years Osborne Hai submitted to just about every treatment known to Man. Nothing worked. The nearest he gets to a Normal state is a Blissful Hiccup free moment or two just after he swallows a spoonful of Damson s Plum  currently there Are eight quarts of the stuff in the Osborne pantry. A Core was easier for Arl Stopham. Ptero reports. A paper bag Over your head a sudden fright. An Eye watering shot of vinegar. Grip your out thrust Tongue Between thumb and Index  in dialogues that the comic poet was overcome with such a racking Case of hiccups during a banquet that us Tan to a tres the crowd a Pont Poca a physician Oryx Machus agreed to speak in Aristo Phanes place and advised him hold your breath and if this fails then gargle with a Little water and if the Hiccup still continues tickle your nose with something and sneeze and if you sneeze once or twice even the most violent Hiccup is rare to  and so the Hiccup went but not until aristophanes ran through the Gamut of recommended treatment and tried As a last resort the sneeze. This caused him to wonder whether the principle of order in the human Frame requires this sort of noises and  just what Are these noises and tickling what Hap pens is the diaphragm the muscular partition Between the lungs and the stomach which docs much of the work in breathing gets its signals crossed and begins to contract spasmodically. With each spasm the Glottis the area Between the vocal cords Chimes in by suddenly snapping shut. Inflowing air is stopped and the sound it makes is. Hie. What Coasaca inc Day Fang to go into Saa sats b the Caw of a Brief her Appleg episode it s hard la know it com to Joel abort any take. But when hiccups persist something else is usually wrong. Sometimes it s something deadly. Consider about a week before he died in october 1958, Pope Pius Xii was overtaken by a stubborn Case of hiccups. It was the second time hiccups had badgered the 82-year-old pontiff. Four years earlier Pius hic cupped for several Days and nights. When doctors treated a her Nia of the oesophagus his hiccups subsided. In 1958, Vatican officials described Pius hiccups As a slight  on the morning of oct. 5, Pius delivered a 20-minute speech without the press noted a single Hiccup. The next Day the pontiff suffered a stroke. Three Days later he died after a second  hiccups probably indicated transient ischaemic attacks Little strokes says or. John s. Meyer a Veter ans administration neurologist in  Pius s death Meyer says doctors have con firmed that Stroka in the brain Stem can confuse nerve signals provoking chronic hiccups. Or. Terence Anthoney of the Illinois school of medi Cine in Carbondale believes Osborne t 58-year Case of hiccups May Hare a similar origin. Anthoney who s been trying to Core Osborne s hiccups guesses that while be dragged that 350-Pound hog. To Slaughter Osborne popped a blood vessel in his brain. Other causes of stubborn hiccups include kidney fail ure where the accompanying backup of toxins and Poi sons in the blood can spark Hiccup Ping and ulcers. If hiccups persist despite All treatment there is a last resort cure surgery to crush the haywire nerve. But the list of remedies to try first is almost  standards breath holding bag breathing drinking water from the wrong Side of a Glass gargling Are aimed at increasing Carbon dioxide in the blood. Carbon dioxide inhibits  shocks sugar vinegar a sneeze a fright Chew ing ice Are aimed at interrupting the spasms. Tranquil Izen sometimes work. For Msj wow s hiccups a Toaty  Gery. He s ant Coor laced it would work for Hobo pm. Instead he wants to try an elaborate schedule of inhaling various concentrations of Carbon dioxide. As for Osborne he says hell try anything. It s a misery. I get awful sore in my stomach from Alt the jerking and jumping