Thanks for your input, Kate & Merry.
I googled but had not found that article Merry. It seems it's rare but possible to have a spontaneous gastric perforation. I expect the doctor had never come across it before. Only emergency surgery would have saved her, poor girl.
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researching
Chowns in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire
Brewer, Broad, Eplett & Pope in Cornwall
Smoothy & Willsher/Wiltshire in Essex & Surrey
Emms, Mealing + variants, Purvey & Williams in Gloucestershire
Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham, Saul/Seals/Sales in Norfolk
Matthews & Nash in Warwickshire
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