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This feenaed to me to have been ori- 

 ginally a trne aneurifm, fjch as the one 

 fituated in rhe right groin of John- Parker, 

 but which had burft on the hack part ;■ 

 and the blood from the artery formed the 

 large cavity filled with the coagulym and 

 grumous blood.^ 



CASE vr. 



On the 4th of February 1765', I was 

 preient at the difFedlion of the leg. of a 

 man, which had been taken off above the 

 knee in the Weftminfler Infirmary for aa 

 aneurifm in the ham, which had be- 

 gun in May 1764, without any evidenc 

 caufe. 



It had had, at fi' ft, the feel of a fmail 

 circumfcribed tumour; but, long before 

 the operation, had lofl tliat appearance j 

 and the whole ham was diftended into a 

 large tumour. 1 he cavity was large, 

 fi^lled the whole ham, and extended itfelf 

 between the poplitaeus and gaftrocnemii 

 mufcles J and was capable of holding above 



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