Abstract

In 1949, Burnett, Commons, Albright, and Howard 1 reported six cases of hypercalcemia, calcinosis, and renal insufficiency, without hypercalciuria or hypophosphatemia, in patients with a history or symptoms of peptic ulcer, who had received excessive amounts of milk and absorbable alkali. The following case demonstrates many of the features of this syndrome. REPORT OF A CASE A 41-year-old white man was admitted to the Veterans Administration Hospital, Fort Howard, Md., on June 26, 1949, complaining of weakness, nausea, and vomiting, of three to four days' duration. He had noted epigastric pain in September, 1942, while in the United States Navy. Relief had been obtained from self-medication with about a quart of milk a day. He was admitted to a hospital while in service for pain and swelling of the left arm. While there he asked for sodium bicarbonate and milk to relieve his epigastric pain, and investigation revealed a duodenal

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