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slightly accentuated; there is no visible pulsation over the epi- 

 gastrium; the pulse is 76, and the systolic blood pressure 128 

 millimeters Hg (Faught) ; the liver and spleen are not enlarged; 

 the knee jerks are active. 



The earlier notes of the case show otherwise nothing of im- 

 portance except that the patient lost 2.7 kilograms (6 pounds) 

 in weight by the sixty-first day. On the sixty-ninth day the 





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systolic blood pressure was 105 millimeters Hg. On the eighty- 

 first day dried codfish and potatoes were added to the diet. On 

 the eighty-third day the note reads: Complains of no pain, but 

 of general weakness; has lost 2.7 kilograms (6 pounds) in 

 weight; there is epigastric pulsation, but no visible throbbing 

 over the cardiac area; the point of maximum impulse is 8.5 



