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Curing Hiccups with Small Fires
Imprint: Boxtree
Synopsis
'The English aristocrat John 'Mad Jack' Mytton died a bloated, paralysed and penniless debtor in prison. His premature demise was partly due to injuries sustained while setting fire to his own night-shirt to try to cure hiccups. Just before the horribly burned Mytton slumped into unconsciousness he said, "Well, the hiccups is gone, by God."'
An 18th-century French scholar attributed...
Details
304 pages
Imprint: Boxtree