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the groin. I. The one in the left ham. 

 K. One in the right ; and L. The orifice 

 where the fac burft. 



Fig. 9 Shews the membranous, muf- 

 cular, and internal coats of the aneuriim 

 marked No. 2. in fig. i. & 2. carefully 

 difTeded, and diftinguilhed by the letters 

 AA.BB. andCC. 



CASE 11. 



Thomas Cook, a foldier of the third 

 regiment of foot guards, fometime in the 

 beginning of the year 1759, perceived a 

 fwelling in his left armpit, for which he 

 could aflign no caufe, having received no 

 blow or bruife on that part, nor having 

 been fenfible of having overftiained him* 

 felf in any manner. 



This he immediately fhewed to Mr 

 Fordyce furgeon to the regiment, who 

 difcovered it to be an aneurifm. The 

 fwelling gradually increafed till the 

 month of Odlober, when, Mr Fordyce 

 declining to attempt any operation, 



the 



