Show t Interrupting J t t Hiccups r t For eight weeks the patient I had been night and is day A SIMPLE technique perfected perfected per by a hospital aide restored restored re reo i stored him rum to normal breathing breath breath- breathing f ing within three minutes b The aide Benjamin Tiso of p Boston City Hospital has received received re reo doctors' doctors permission to 1 treat acute hiccup cases by placing a drop of diluted ammonia ammonia am am- monia in each nostril followed fol followed fol lowed by a few minutes with an oxygen mask d I hiccups hiccups rue MR TISO believes that suction cups are caused by a in m the pocket developing throat The ammonia caus causes i ithe draw in m hiso M hiS t P the p patient to that the l the breath s so o sharply pocket is broken So far the aide has used t n his rus technique success successfullY I some e I r so although on 61 patients W I doctors question its scientific validity 1 1 |