Case 18-1968

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Presentation of Case First admission. A fifty-two-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of hematemesis and melena.For the previous eighteen months he had consumed between a pint and a quart of whiskey daily. During the year before entry he experienced generalized weakness, and during the two weeks before entry he took aspirin tablets every two hours because of increasing malaise and nausea. Three days before admission he vomited bloody gastric contents and passed several tarry, black stools. There was no history of abdominal pain or a peptic ulcer.On physical examination the lungs and heart were normal. There . . .
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