Dysphagia with Anæmia, with Reports on Five Cases

Manifest, with pigmentation and achlorhydria, a diagnosis of pernicious anaemia is suggested, while the Cracks at the angles of the mouth, and the chronic glossitis may lead us astray by simulating a syphilitic condition. Clinical Picture.?The patients are all women, and, ^vhat is more, generally women of middle age, thin, Pale and " worried." Advice is usually sought on a?count of difficulty in swallowing, progressive over Months or years, which has gradually reduced the v*ctim to a fluid diet. The food " sticks in the