Sunday 5 July 2015

A most violent convulsion

A young man belonging to Long-Witton, in Northumberland, was recommended to the infirmary at Newcastle, afflicted with a most violent convulsion in the diaphragm. His hiccup is said to have been heard at two miles distance; and the noise so hideous, that cattle were frightened at him. This disorder succeeded a fever.

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