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Letter: Just relax

Published 8 May 2013

From Dave Silkstone

Thorsten Wirth describes his push-ups cure for hiccups (13 April, p 28), so I thought I’d add my method: I just relax the muscle that is causing the hiccup. I learned how to do this in the same way as I learned to control the muscle that wiggles my ears.

Leeds, UK

Issue no. 2916 published 11 May 2013

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