Atlanta, Ga., February 14.—Editor Con
stitution; On reading in The Sunday Con
stitution of the case og John Carberry, of
New York, who is suffering from an acute
attack of hiccoughs, 1 was reminded of a
simple remedy icr this very distressing
complaint, which 1 learned ot some ten or
twelve years ago. At that time I was fore
man in the \ve.stern Electric Company’s
shops til A-.-w Vo, K. One day 1 had a se
vere attack of hiccoughs and one of my
men, unsold Englishman, told me he could
relieve me in one minute. He did so and 1
have tried this same relief on myself anti
others on several occasions since then and
always with success. It might be termed
an ‘‘electric cure,” and is operated as fol
lows:
Let the person afflicted hold out his or
her hands just in front, the palms of the
hands upward, the ends of the fingers turn
ed sligntly up. Now let another person of
the opposite sex hold his or her hands over
the other ones, palms downward, then low
er the hands till the tips of the fingers
of each person lightly touches the wrist of
the other. This complets the circuit. In a
few seconds a prickling sensation will be
felt by each person like a slight shock
from a. galvanic battery, and the hiccoughs
will stop. It may not be successful in ev
ery case, but 1 have never seen it fail.
Should you think tins deserving ot a space
in you valuable paper, it might be the
means of relieving some of this truly dis
tressing ailment. g. C.
February "Blue and Gray” out today.
