212 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS ' 



CASE V. 



Michael Conelly, a middle aged 

 man, who ufed to carry a fedan chair, 

 feme time in the beginning of the year 

 1703', perceived a fwelling about the fize 

 of a wahiut, which had a (Irong pulfatiou 

 in the upper part of the right thigh, con- 

 tiguous to the OS pubis J which he could not 

 account for. Several months after this, 

 he fhewed it to Mr Gataker ferjeant fur- 

 geon extraordinary to his Majefty, who- 

 immediately knew it to be an aneurifm ; 

 it was then about the fize of a very fmall 

 hen's egg, had a ftrong pulfation, and the 

 feel of a circumfcribed tumour, 



Mr Gataker brought the man tq 

 St George's Hofpital, where he confulted 

 with the other furgeons, who all agreed 

 that the aneurifm was fituated too high to 

 attempt any operation. 



About mid-fummer 1764, when it 

 was rather larger than a common egg, it 



bit 



