Why Charles Osborne Got Into the Guinness Book of Records: No One Has Ever "Outhiccupped" Him
When a person starts hiccupping, people say that someone is remembering him. It is unlikely that this statement has scientific roots.
Charles Osborne, who hiccupped 420,000,000 times in his life, for which he was included in the Guinness Book of Records, could easily refute this.
People try to immediately prevent a hiccup attack. To do this, they drink water, hold their breath, and massage special points on the body.
It is unlikely that all this could help the American Osborne, and he could only get used to the hiccups. And his attack lasted 68 years!
Not only folk tricks, but also medicine could not help Osborne.
The attack began in 1922, when the poor guy was 29 years old. He tried to hang a pig carcass for cutting, but fell, began to hiccup and hiccupped almost until the end of his earthly life.
Osborne decided to tell People magazine about this in 1982.
According to the record holder, at that time doctors assumed that some blood vessel had burst in his head, but no one was able to solve Osborne’s problems.
The only time the man didn't hiccup was when he was sleeping.
To avoid irritating others with hiccup sounds, he developed and mastered a breathing technique between spasms sometime in the 1950s.
After the interview, the man began receiving recipes for fighting hiccups. Charles even tried some of them, but nothing helped.
However, hiccups did not stop the man from getting married and having 8 children.
In 68 years, the first and longest break was 36 hours. Before that, Osborne underwent a course of hormone treatment, but then the hiccups returned.
The second time the man stopped hiccupping was in 1990. He was 97 years old then. It was the calmest, but the last year in Charles Osborne's life.
The record holder died in 1991. The American's not-so-pleasant record was never beaten.
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