Was reading about this girl last night, whose five weeks of hiccups ended.
Sucks to be her, I guess. Nice that the hiccups stopped when she was going to sleep.
So then, as I am wont to do, I looked up "hiccup" on wikipedia, just to see what one of my newest favorite internet tubes says about something as simple and ubiquitous as a bodily function. My favorite exerpt is below, emphasis mine...
| from wikipedia.org's entry on Hiccup |
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| In 2006, Francis Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine received an Ig Nobel prize for medicine after he published "Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage" in 1988.[1] In an attempt to block the runaway messages on the vagus nerve, Fesmire found that stimulation of the vagus nerve by digital rectal massage worked, stopping a bout of hiccupping. Fesmire also commented "An orgasm results in incredible stimulation of the vagus nerve." |
So you think, "Oh, OK. Cool, a hiccup study."
Then you get that puzzled look on your face-- "Wait. Hold on...
"Massage. OK, sounds good.
"Rectal massage? Oh no, that's not as good.
"Digital. Hmm. I'm guessing that's not technological in nature. Especially not since the digits on my hands seem to be evolutionally tailored to things requiring motor skills. Like massage."
And now you realize that some professor somewhere did an entire study on this. Perhaps you're now wondering just how he recruited subjects for this study? I know I was...
| HELP WANTED FOR STUDY OF HICCUPS Got excessive and/or chronic hiccups? Don't mind touching yourself in or being touched by others in your bad area? Contact Dr. Fesmire for more info. And a good time. |
Back in the third grade, our (myself and infrequent-SHoP Overlord SixHertz) teacher seemed to have numerous cures for hiccups. I don't think this was one of them though...
Jihad Jimmy, Minister of War Crimes and Chief Defender of the Faith
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