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loft its form of a circumfcribed tumour ; 

 the whole upper part of the thigh fwelled, 

 and the pulfation became more obfcure, 

 and at laft was fcarce to be perceived. 

 Some months after this, the fkin on the 

 fore part of the thigh became very thin 

 and red in one or two places, and foon 

 after an oozing of blood and matter was 

 perceived to come from one or two fmail 

 orifices, which gradually enlarged till the 

 27th of January 1765, when one of them 

 burft fuddenly in the evening, and the 

 man fell down dead immediately, as if 

 he had been Ihot with a ball through the 

 heart. 



Next day his body was opened. The 

 right crural artery, juft as it paffed over 

 the us pubis, opened into a very large ca- 

 vity, filled with a firm coagulum, larger 

 than the head of a child of three years of 

 age, and a quantity of grumous and fluid 

 blood, mixed with a black very foetid 



matter. 



Upon emptying the fac, and cleaning 

 it with a fpunge and water, part of its 



fore 



