jg6 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATION^ 



the patient brought a recommendatory 

 letter to St George's Hofpital, and was ta- 

 ken into the houfj on the 20th of that 

 mouth. At this time the tumour was 

 large, and extended itfelf far down the 

 arm J it had flill a pulfation, and the pulfe 

 at the wrift was feeble and weak. The 

 phyficlans and furgeons of the hofpital, 

 upon examining the cafe, were of the 

 fame opinion wich Mr Fordyce; they 

 thought the tu'r.our was fituated too high 

 ■up to attempt any operation, and advifed 

 only mild palliatives and anodynes to be 

 given. After this the fweiling gradually 

 increafed, and its pulfation as gradually 

 diminiflied, fo that at lad only a tremu- 

 lous motion could be obferved in it ; the 

 pulfe at the wrifi: grew daily weaker, and 

 at lad ceafed entirely. In the end of No- 

 vember, or the beginning of December, 

 the turr our began to rife in the middle^ 

 and at Lift burftirig on the 29th of Decem- 

 ber, the patient died immediately of a pro- 

 fufe haemorrhage. 



Next day the body was opened in pre- 

 fence of all the phyficians and furgeons 

 ' of 



