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Show TWO MALADIES HIT NEW YORK "Hiccups" and Sleep Sickness Baffle Health Officers. MANY HUNDREDS AFFECTED Mdlcal Profession at 8a at to Whether Hiccups Art Part of the Restless Aspect of Sleeping Sick-neti Sick-neti or a Manifestation of Seme New and independent Qerm There Have Been Hloeup Epidemic for Centurlea. Resides typhus. New York has been Tlslled by twti oew ami altogfther amazing epidemics this ,-onr. One of them Is sleeping sickness ami the other Is thai niminim and heretofore iMslgiilllcnnt nmlntly knovn as "hiccups." "hic-cups." At least, so they are called, but nelll-er ! iiimiliig true t.. lypa, wiltu- iuiieik .1. Uusklrt In Chicago News. For the sleeping sickness, which Is now so prevalent In New York. Is not the snme as the famous sleeping sick-ness sick-ness of Aft Ira. theTaue of which Is well understood Not is U present -epidemic of hiccups In any way t- 1 Inled In those gentle attacks occasion-nlly occasion-nlly experienced by eerono, more es-' peclally slnie the pocket tli.sk has be-1 come so popular. The new hiccup , tire singularly malignant mid persist I cut. and arenolat nil humorous They attack their victim every few seconds during the dnj. and aie not nlwn.vs to j lie suppressed by deep breaths, drinks of wnter, chunks of bread and oihcr I well knnwii tlevlces Sometlmos a hlc- cup siasm lasts for more than an hour, ami the hiccup seilo- extends for weeks at a stretch. Hoth epKeiules, nnVetlng hundreds of persons, have completely bullied New York medical men, and all other int'dleal men, foi that matter. No one has been able lo discover how or whence the. enme. what to tlo for them while heio. or how to gel rid of them. From the grent medical research re-search Inboraturles of the city, such ns that of Hie Itockefeller Foundation. hae come Mirlous theories as to their cniine. none of which has proved con-vlnilng. con-vlnilng. Two Are Connected. The mint Inlere-fiu one leeently nihniieed is (bat the two ntlllctlona are In some mysterious and subtle wny connetled that prolonged at-tncks at-tncks of hiccups nre merely one of the ninny Irrllntlng symptoms of sleep-Ins sleep-Ins sickness; yet this Is by 110 meani unanimously nccepted. The only fact nccepted without dial. Icnge concerning encephalitis lvth.tr glen, w tilth is s. s.'a lmprpfde sclen-tlfle sclen-tlfle mime, Is thnt It docs not spilng from the snme cause ns the African malady of the snme mime. The latter Is known to bo produced by the bite nf the tsetse ily, whose chief diet It the blood of Hie crocodile. Sllll, i:. I.ethnrglcn must hnve a cniike, nnd the iiipiIIchI profession Is striving gnllnntly to supply It. .Some of Its members 111 inly believe that It Is merely an after-effect of Influenza, but this does not help much, because the Inlliirirn germ remnlus to be Identified. Identi-fied. Ilesldes this, many others among tlie profession aro equally coriuln that Inlliienrn has nothing to do with the new atlllctloa. It Is nil very bewildering, een to the doctors, and now comes the hiccup hic-cup epidemic to complicate matters. Are hiccups a part of the restless ns-poet ns-poet of sleeping rlckness, or are they a manifestation 'if some new anil In dependent germ n-orklng on Its own erratic course? No one knows. We do know that rases of sustained hiccups hic-cups have suddenly Stirling up both In Kurope and this country, and that sometimes they occur alone nnd unaccompanied un-accompanied by any other ills-ease. "Pnthologhally. this prevalence ol hlccnps seems to be nsoclnted"wlth irritation of the phrenic nerve from gnstFo-lntestlnal disturbance; fiom neuroses, or froii remote disturbance' of the central nmous system not 'ei determined," says one niilhurity, writing writ-ing for a medical Journul. "In pneumonia or typhoid fev.c.r. hiccups, hic-cups, perhaps due primarily to the ef fects of bacterial toxins, may be n so rlous complicating factor, even causing caus-ing death. Lattt Week or Longer. "In the epidemic through which we are now passing many cases have occurred oc-curred In which patients hlccupec! every three or four seconds for perl ods of a week or longer "Thcrmltte points out ihat the first appearance of (be epidemic of which he knows occurred In Vienna In tht winter of 1910 1020. Largo number of persons were suddenly attacked with spasms of hiccups nnd did not respond to trcutmuit. In most easel they ceased of their own accord nftei n few da.vs. Tills uuthnrlt tilso ussorts .bat there huo been hiccup epidemics foi centuries, none of width has -er beet understood. The .ime meohnnlcn1 therapeutic uifiim's hati-' nlwn.u been usisl prossuie on the ejelmlh or on the spine temptesslon of ihi lirms, mviillowlng 11 'bunk of luetic and ln!luoii! lug He diaphragm hj forcible lb xloii 't tl 1 lerfs The sura, measure '" ,"'w, l0,,ay 'rnp "nl-" thing new In the hlecvr situation I Its SU I'' I 'I Ti.litiUoU Willi UilCtfp'.i. litis whMi -eims only to deepen F niysteo . |