2i8 ESSAYS AMD OBSERVATIONS 



■wound treated as after the cperation foi 

 the fall'e aneurifm of the arm; but, if it 

 pr.)v:d to be the trux.kof the crural arte- 

 ry which was ruptured, that the amputa- 

 ting the limb was the only method to be 

 ufed to fave the patient's life. When the 

 operation was performed on the 5th, it 

 was found to be the trunk of the crural 

 artery which was ruptured ; the limb was 

 amputated, and the man is now in a fair 

 way of recovery, it being four weeks 

 fince the operation. There was a little hard- 

 nefs round the artery below the rupture ; 

 but the man had never felt any uneafi- 

 nefs ia that thigh before the accident of 

 the fall on the 23d of December, 



CASE Yin. 



A ftrong middle aged man, who ferved 

 as a failoi on board of cue of his Jvlajeily's 

 ihips of war, in the time of the fiege of 

 the Havannah, felt a pain in his heel, 



whicli 



