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Excerpt from Edinburgh Medical Journal, Vol. 23: Containing the Monthly Journal of Medicine and the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal; Part II., January to June 1878 The cases came under my observation while I was acting as house-physician to Dr Gr. W. Balfour, who has kindly given me permission to publish my notes and tracings. Case I.1 - Beatrice Matherson, at. 57, Single. Admitted to Ward XIII. On 80th November 1875. (the patient was very deaf, and a complete account of her previous ailments was not Obtain able.) Stated that, twenty or thirty years ago, she suffered from a severe in ammation of the front part of the neck, for which leeches were applied. Since then she has scarcely ever been entirely free from cough and Shortness of breath on exertion. She has also had frequent vomitings of blood, but not during the last two or three years. The increasing want of breath, cough, and the more recently appearing swelling of the legs, have latterly obliged her to remain in bed. Never had rheumatic fever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."