Historical label: “Hic-cough” in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases”.
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A note on the heading
Plain sense
The hiccup. Culpeper spells it hiccough and files it with vomiting and choler, as a disorder of the stomach (our reading).
What the entries treat
One sentence, Mint: “two or three branches thereof taken in the juice of four pomegranates, stays the hiccough, vomiting, and allays the choler”.
Where the word comes from
“Hiccough”, Wiktionary says, is the original British-English spelling and “an example of folk etymology”, unetymological; the word is hiccup, from earlier hickop, hicket and hyckock, built on “hic”, the sound, with a diminutive ending. It displaced yex, from Old English ġiscian.
Today’s words
hiccups; hiccup; a spasm of the diaphragm — the modern term names the same thing.
How it reads today
Reads as it did, under its old spelling: a spasm of the diaphragm and the sound it makes. The spelling is the one trap for a search, so both forms are aliases.
References
Wiktionary, s.v. “hiccough” (accessed 2026-10-28): “Dated spelling of hiccup”; usage note, “the original British-English spelling, and an example of folk etymology”. Wiktionary, s.v. “hiccup” (accessed 2026-10-28): from earlier hickop, an alteration of hicket and hyckock, from onomatopoeic hic with the diminutive suffix -ock; the double c a remnant of the “hiccough” spelling, which the entry calls unetymological; displaced yex, from Old English ġiscian, ġeocsian “to hiccup”; sense “a spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound”.
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