A cure for hiccoughs: Try for a long time to make the edges of the thumb-nails meet at the end.
Chestertown, Md.

A cure for hiccoughs: Try for a long time to make the edges of the thumb-nails meet at the end.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 851.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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