PHYSICAL AND LITERARY. 2i£ 



C A S E IV. 



A man, thirty years of age, was 

 brought into Sc George's Hofpital, on 

 account of an aneurifm in his ham, of 

 the fize of a hen's egg. 



It had begun three months before 

 that, after he had laboured, for a con- 

 fiderable time, under a fever and rheu- 

 matifm. As he was otherwife feem- 

 ingly in good health, except weak, and 

 had no other aneurifm but this, the 

 amputation of the limb above the ham 

 was performed. For nine days after the 

 operation, every thing appeared to go on 

 well; but, on the morning of the tenth, 

 he was fuddenly feized with a locked jaw, 

 and died the following night. 



The fecond day after his death his 

 body was opened. All the vifcera feeni- 

 ed perfedlly found, and we could oblerve 

 no appearance of any other aneurifm in 

 the arterial fyflem : But the arteries we 

 thought were raiher of a more lax texture 

 than common, 



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