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of Petic's tourriequets was put lodfe oil 

 the thigh above the tumour ; and the 

 patient was defired to turn the fcrew, if 

 the tumour Ihould happen to burft and 

 bleed. The othef aneurifms all this time 

 gave no uneafinefs ; at leaft, the violence 

 of the pain in this made him lefs fenfr- 

 ble of any from the others ; and they 

 remained nearly of the fame {ize, except- 

 ing that the one in the left ham feemed 

 rather to haveincreafed. 



On Saturday the 14th, in the after- 

 tioon, the tumour burft ; and, before 

 he could turn the fcrew of the tourne- 

 quet fufficiently, he loft a great quan- 

 tity of blood, which reduced him very 

 low, and he became faint and fick, with an 

 inclination to vomit. On Sunday, in the 

 morning, I found him very low, with the 

 fame ficknefs and inclination to vomit, 

 which he had had the day before. He 

 complained, that, fince the tournequet had 

 been fcrewed tight, the tumour in the 

 groin had begun to enlarge, and to have 

 a ftronger pulfationj and he told me, 



that,; 



