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Harry Mendis, a 15-year-old British schoolboy, had a long hiccup(打嗝)at the end of last month．
His hiccups began one Sunday lunchtime and lasted for two weeks．After the first week, Harry's parents took him to hospital, but it took another week for the doctors to cure(治愈)him．
Harry who is now back at school is talking about his hiccups．
“When I began to hiccup, I drank a glass of water, but that didn't work．That evening I had hiccups every four seconds．I tried many ways to stop them．I held my breath(屏住呼吸)and drank cold drinks．My father even tried to give me a shock, but that didn't work, either．After a week of sleepless nights, I went to hospital．The doctors couldn't find anything wrong．They gave me some medicine and my hiccups slowed down, but it was another week before the medicine worked completely(完全)and my hiccups stopped．”
Harry was very lucky．The world record(记录)holders is the American farmer Charles Smith, who hiccupped for 69 years and 5 months．He stopped hiccups in 1990 at last, but nobody knew why．
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