Hiccough (singultus) is a spasmodic affection of the diaphragm.
Hiccough deserves to be ranked among the complications, because it is of frequent occurrence, obstinate and annoying.
Hiccough is a much less unfavorable symptom in relapsing fever than in typhoid or typhus, and vomiting, even frequent and persistent, may occur in cases of ordinary severity.
Obstinate hiccough appeared on the eleventh day, and continued, accompanied with occasional vomiting on the fourteenth day.
As already stated, it was found the most useful remedy for the hiccough which was so troublesome in a number of our cases, and especially in those where jaundice was pronounced.
But I shall mind it," insisted M'Iver, pursing his lips as much to check a hiccough as to express his determination.
This is caused by intermittent, sudden contraction of the diaphragm; obstinate hiccough is a very distressing symptom and sometimes it is hard to control.
Constipation may be very obstinate, vomiting may be present and persistent and hiccough present.
The attack must have been a severe one, as it is stated subsequently that the hiccough did not disappear until Aristophanes had excited the sneezing.
Cowan also mentions instances of prolonged hiccough related by Heberden, Good, Hoffman, and Wartmouth.
Laborde and Lepine report the case of a young girl who was relieved of an obstinate case of hiccough lasting four days by traction on her tongue.
Barrett is accredited with reporting a case of persistent hiccough in a man of thirty-five.
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.
Barlow also recites a case of hiccough which was caused by pressure on the cicatrix of a wound in the left hand.
Hiccough is a symptom due to intermittent, sudden contraction of the diaphragm.
Stevenson cites a fatal instance of hiccough in a stone-mason of forty-four who suffered continuously from May 14th to May 28th.
Ranney reports the case of an unmarried woman of forty-four who suffered from paroxysms of hiccough that persisted for four years.
Corson speaks of a man of fifty-seven who, after exposure to cold, suffered exhausting hiccough for nine days; and also records the case of an Irish servant who suffered hiccough for four months; the cause was ascribed to fright.
The obstinacy of continued hiccough has long been discussed.
Willard speaks of a man of thirty-four who began tohiccough after an attack of pneumonia, and continued for eighty-six hours.
Every time they hiccough let them have an extra slap in memory of me.
She is being brutally treated by the dear impediment, for which hiccough is such an inadequate name that even to spell it is an abomination though a sign of ability.
Hiccough is sometimes sympathetic, occasioned by the pain of gravel in the kidney or ureter, as in Class IV.
When a stone irritates the ureter, and that even without its being attended with pain or fever, sometimes a chronical hiccough occurs, and continues for days and weeks, instead of sickness or vomiting; which are the common symptoms.
A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted it.
His weakness increased every moment, and a harassing hiccoughcontinued until death took place.
Towards morning the hiccough began to torment him, the fever increased, and he became quite delirious.
But even as she spoke the woman with the hiccough came back and took up her position on the end of the seat.
Troublesome hiccough comes on, and this symptom is by many considered as a sure sign of gangrene having taken place; but it is often present when the bowels are quite free from tenderness or tendency to gangrene.
I stand there for maybe an hour, hiccough and whisper, and hold on to the door.
I began to hiccough with rage, and I wrestled from my very inmost soul with my misery; made a right gallant effort not to sink down.
He was about to ask his companion, but with a distant hiccoughthe small man had vanished.
Those words and the sound of a hiccoughaccompanied Gyp down the alley to her cab.
Hiccough is a sudden jerking inspiration due to the spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm and of the glottis, causing the air to rush suddenly through the larynx, and produce this peculiar sound.
There is marked tenderness on pressure, the pulse is frequent and small, coldness of the surface is marked, and hiccough is apt to occur.
After a time only yellow, brown, or greenish mucus, with more or less bile, is ejected, and in protracted cases hiccough is most distressing.
The abdomen is greatly distended; hiccough comes on, also stercoraceous vomiting, tenesmus, and in the worst cases involuntary stools and suppression of urine.
Bilious vomiting and hiccough are prominent symptoms; the patient is thirsty, and the liquids taken only promote vomiting; and the bowels are constipated.
Hiccough in some cases is an obstinate and annoying symptom.
Hiccough is quite frequent in hysteria in girls, but it is of no consequence.
Infrequently hiccough may be the result of cold feet, or a surface chill.
The nerves that produce hiccough are near the surface in the neck.
Hiccough is a distressing and sometimes a dangerous complaint.
Reference may be made to some cases of Raymond and Janet, where the method was successful in curing a constant giggle of four months' duration; hiccough also, and spasms of the limbs, were combated by these means.
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