| A married
lady aged thirty eight years, the mother of several children, had
suffered since childhood from dyspnoea, increased by any active
exertion, by going up or down-stairs, by exposure to cold, and eating
very warm food. Pain in the left lumbar region of the abdomen (also
from childhood). Within the last year, constant burning in the stomach
and throat, with a sensation of dryness in the latter, as also of
a lump in the pit of the throat, which impeded respiration and deglutition.
Weakness and oppression in the epigastrium, with other symptoms
of gastric derangement. Urine of a deep red, depositing a copious
red sediment.
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