1 86 ESSAYS andOBSERVATIOMS 



the patient's illnefs, or from the body af- 

 ter death. See tab. i. fig. 7. 8c 8. 



On Wednefday, in the afternoon, his bo* 

 dy was opened by MrArnaud, in prefence 

 of feveral other gentlemen and my f elf. The 

 abdominal and thoracic vifcera were all 

 in a found ftate ; the heart was fmall, 

 the liver had a few black fpots on its fur- 

 face, but did not feem otherwife difeafed. 

 The aorta, the iliacs, and all the other 

 arteries within the thorax and abdomen, 

 feemed to be in a found ftate, and had no 

 perceptible dilatation. 



The crural artery of the right fide, a- 

 bout a quarter of an inch below where 

 the epigaftric artery goes off, was dilated, 

 and the dilatation continued down for 

 2| inches ; it was covered with numerous 

 inguinal glands, fwelled to the fize of 

 very fmall beans, which had made this 

 aneurifmal fac appear to- be larger before 

 death than it was found on difledlion to 

 be, after thefe glands were feparated; when 

 diftended^wich air, it had much the ap- 

 pearance of an eggf and refemblcd exa6l- 





