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An account of a singular case of obstructed deglutition.

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Mem. med. Soc. Lond., 2, 275-86. 1794 CE.

Bayford reported a a fatal case of "obstructed deglutition" caused by compression of the oesophagus by an aberrant right subclavian artery. This he called Dysphagia lusoria. See the account by N. Asherson in Ann. roy. Coll. Surg. Eng., 1979, 6l, 63-67.

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