IN THE Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire, we learn that Blanche DuBois is considerably more complex than meets the eye. So too is a recently identified sensation associated with the production of cough, known as the “urge-tocough” (3, 4). In this issue of the Journal of Applied Physiology, Lavorini et al. (8) have investigated the influence of voluntary hyperpnea and exercise on ...
