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My father swears that swallowing half a teaspoon of sugar before it melts is a sure cure for hiccups. I just tried it on a case of every-ten-seconds hiccups, and it does work, but the trick (at least for me) is to use sugar with big enough grains that they won't all melt when you work up enough spit to swallow them. Half a teaspoon of sand would be better because it won't melt, but I'm not terribly interested in trying that.