Who Hiccuped for Sixty-eight Years?

Charles Osborne. On This Won't Hurt a Bit, Dr. Mel Herbert and Dr. Jess Mason say his hiccups began in 1922, when he fell while trying to weigh a pig before slaughtering it, and lasted 68 years. They started at about 40 hiccups a minute and later slowed to about 20. They stopped mysteriously in 1990, a year before his death. His doctor blamed a burst blood vessel the size of a pin in the brain, in the brainstem area that inhibits the hiccup response. The hosts say the case is the one in the Guinness Book of Records.