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1. Read the following text:

CRAMPS

Night Cramp is something fromwhich a great many people occasionally suffer - and they don’t easily forget it.

Even the healthiest people may get a short, sharp pain in the legs after a strenuous day.

Many older people can bringit on by making powerful stretching movements while lying down in bed. If this sort of night cramp becomes a real nuisance, avoiding over-stretching and tablets containing quinine sulphate atbed-time may be all that is needed.

A very small number of patients, however, cannot take quinine without becoming dizzy or getting buzzing in the ears. They may have to decide whether they would ratherhave cramp and no dizziness, or the reverse.

But cramp in the lower limbs in the daytime and in younger, active patients
can be very distressing and is more serious. It is not uncommon and has therather clumsy name of intermittent claudications.

The patient first complains of aching legs after exercise. It may be slight, but gradually becomes more pronounced. Then the pain is not merely anache, but a definite, crippling cramp, which can become so severe that the patient finds he or she cannot stand after much walking.

Intermittent claudication is caused by the narrowing of thearteries and often starts in the 30s. It generally means that the arteries everywhere in the body have become narrowed and blood cannot reach the muscles fast enough when they are in use. The heart...