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CASE VII. 



*The following is a remarkable injlance of the 

 Rupture of a large /htcv) from a FalL 



On the 23d of December 1764, John 

 Robertfon, a carpenter by trade, in full 

 health, being in liquor, fell feveral times 

 in the ftreets. On the 26th or 27th, he 

 perceived a fwelling in the middle of his 

 left thigh, which had a ftrong pulfation, 

 and gave him pain ; by the third of Ja- 

 nuary I7<^5', it had increafed confidera- 

 bly, and gave him racking pain, and he 

 was brought to St George's Hofpital, 

 Next day the furgeons had a confultation 

 on his cafe, and were all of opinion, that 

 it was a f alie aneurifm, occafioned by 

 the rupture of fome large artery ; that 

 the .aneurifmal fac ought to be opened, 

 and, if the ruptured vejGTel vvras found to 

 i be only a collateral branch of the crural 

 I artery, that it ought to be tied, and the 



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