I had the hiccups tonight, and I resorted to a hiccup cure I have been using ever since Philip Kendall taught it to me in 1973.
You put a standard issue table-knife in a glass of water and drink all the water leaving the knife in place. The knife somehow forces you to hold your throat in the right way to cure the hiccups. Since Phil taught me the cure, I have learned over the last 30 years or so, that you don't actually need the knife, but you have to drink the water as if the knife were there. . .you do a sort of chugging action on the water, and drink it in one fell swoop.
I don't know if this was a Kendall Home Remedy, or if he learned it in college, but it works (for me at least) 100% of the time. As it turns out, the knife cure is not unknown, or just a Kendall family home remedy.
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Jack -- my memory of the "Kendall Home Remedy" is of taking tiny sips of water, quickly in succession, which actually makes you hold your breath (another common cure) and keeps your diaphragm still. The "knife in the glass of water" is essentially the same method. It's funny you bring this up, because I distinctly remember a conversation about this exact remedy in the lunch room at my dad's shop. I didn't remember that it was Philip that was presenting this "new and improved version" of the KHR, but I somehow remember my dad saying that the knife in the water was just a diversion and it would work without it. He was right of course, but the remedy has stayed with me all these years, and I have even resorted to using it. I had forgotten it was Philip's idea. Now I wonder who HE heard it from? Maybe Claudia was there at the time and can shed more light on it.
Yes, I remember that conversation well. I don’t remember where Phil got that remedy, but he swore by it. I still use the tiny sips method, but slowly, to relax my throat. The knife in the glass didn’t do much for me.
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