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Show Relief for nieeouith. Hiccough is most frequently a symptom of Htomach or abdominal disturbance, but it may bo purely nerve irritation independently inde-pendently of this. It muy be produced by tho presence of indigestible or highly Bpiced food in the stomach or by very warm foods or drinks. It may be slight or persistent. per-sistent. When occurring in typhoid fever, cholera, meningitis or peritonitis, it is a grave symptom. The mild attacks are relieved re-lieved by holding tho broath for as long as is consistent. Very warm applications on the lower portion of the back of the neck or over tho diuphragm sometimes afford relief, and pressing hard upon one of the muscles of tho neck which reaches from the inner border of tho upper portion of the first rib behind the "collar bone" upward up-ward and backward to tho vertebra of tho neck has been known to check this distressing dis-tressing symptom. , Infants vomit with perfect ease; children chil-dren make it no diilleult task; but adults in general 1U1 it T0,'y hard work. In many conditions it is well to induce vomiting. vom-iting. This, may bo tho case when it is desired de-sired to dislodge false membranes in cronp or diplitheretic deposits and other substances sub-stances from the air passages. Again, if a poison has been swallowed, frequently the best thing that you cau do is to induce vomiting at once. The quickest way, when it can bo done, is by forcing tho finger fin-ger of tho patient down his throat, gagging us it is sometimes termed. Tickling the throat with a feather will often produce vomiting. Pittsburg Dispatch. |