Had a Good Time by Robert Olen Butler

Author:Robert Olen Butler [Butler, Robert Olen]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Short Stories, Fiction
ISBN: 9781555846206
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2004-09-14T23:00:00+00:00

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HIS HICCOUGHS ARE STOPPED

But Heroic Remedies Necessary May Result in Death of Elmer Smith, Mio Farmer

BAY CITY, MICH., AUGUST 6—After 11 days of hiccoughing Elmer Smith, the wealthy Mio farmer who was brought to Mercy hospital because his physicians could not stop the spasms, local physicians today succeeded in bringing about a complete cessation of the affection, but Smith is in such state from exhaustion and the effects of heroic remedies that his life is hanging by a thread.

Enormous doses of chlorotone and whisky almost completely paralyzed the man, the physicians announcing beforehand that they might kill the sufferer with the drug. Relief was also afforded by mechanically paralyzing the phrenic nerve, nurses sitting for hours at a time pinching it between their fingers.

from page 10 of The Detroit Free Press Sunday, August 7,1910

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