jnw@uvacs.UUCP (06/25/83)
All the hiccup cures that have been presented are wonderful. BUT - how about controlled experiments to rate the effectiveness or each. To do controlled experiments on hiccup cures, we would have to have a way of inducing hiccups in the first place. Other than heavy drinking (which isn't a sure hiccup producer), does anyone know of reliable hiccup inducing techniques? joe wilson Univ. of Virginia uucp: ...decvax!duke!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!jnw CSnet: jnw@uvacs Arpa: jnw.uvacs@udel-relay
lab@qubix.UUCP (06/29/83)
I have found (the hard way) that eating cold macaroni and cheese in a hurry will caught repeated and difficult-to-be-controlled spasms of the diaphragm resulting in a high-pitched tone emanating from the place where the macaroni went in.
tower@inmet.UUCP (06/30/83)
#R:uvacs:-78800:inmet:6400014:000:317 inmet!tower Jun 29 12:29:00 1983 I read a long-time ago that hiccups were caused by a deficiency of Carbon Dioxide in the blood. This would seem to indicate that breathing pure oxygen (or probably a 80/20 Nitrogen Oxygen mix) would do it as long as the exhausted breath was kept separate from the supply. -len tower harpo!inmet!tower Cambridge, MA
wombat@uicsl.UUCP (07/02/83)
#R:uvacs:-78800:uicsl:7500024:000:522 uicsl!wombat Jul 1 17:12:00 1983 I hearby donate my mom to the cause of hiccup science. She will hiccup on demand for you whenever you feed her cold hamburger. I would not make a good subject, though, because even though I often get the hiccups, I can't do it on demand; they just comes and goes randomly. But seriously, it seems like sudden changes in ambient temperature and pressure are often associated with hiccups. Also, anything that causes you to breathe 'out-of-phase' like being scared will do it. Wombat pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat