1 8o ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



after the operation, and kept -upon low 

 diet, to prevent any danger from inflam- 

 mation ; and as he lay in bed, kept his 

 thigh bended towards his body, and his 

 leg towards his thigh, being the pofture 

 in which he found himfelf moft at 

 eafe. 



In November, when the wound was 

 almofl fkinned over, a fmall tumour in 

 the ham of the fame fide was perceived, 

 5ind fhewed to Mr Arnaud i who, at firfi, 

 imagined it to be a flight fwelling of the 

 fmall glands, from the pofition which the 

 leg had been kept in during the cure of 

 the rupture j and therefore ordered only a 

 liniment to rub it with. 



About Chriftmas, thq patient obfer;" 

 yed another tpmour in the right ham, and 

 that boph had a ftrong pulfation, which 

 alarmed him a good deal ; and he fent a- 

 gain for Mr Arnaud, who, upon exami- 

 ning them, immediately difcovered them 

 to be aneurifms ; and attempted by bleed- 

 ing, the applicaciori of aftringent fomen- 

 tations, and proper compreffes and b^n- 



dagesj 



