This paper reports results of treatment by prompt feeding and liberal blood transfusions in 171 consecutive admissions for recent frank haematemesis and/or melaena, between June, 1940, and December, 1942. They were treated in the dietetic wards of a modern municipal hospital serving a large industrial and poor residential district of Greater London. A careful study has been made of the cause of bleeding and of the type of case which proves fatal.
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