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Which he did not know how to account 

 for; foon after he perceived a fwelling 

 and throbbing in the calf of his leg. 

 When he returned to England, the fwell- 

 ing increafed, and was attended with 

 fuch a ftrong puliation in the part as evi- 

 dently Ihewed it to be a true aneurifm. 

 From the lize and the feel, it vvas evident, 

 that the coats of the artery had already 

 given way, and that the aneurifmal fac 

 was formed of membranes, mufcles^ 

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Many remedies were applied, but they 

 gave him no relief. At laft, in February 

 1765, the furgeon who attended him, af- 

 ter confulting fome of his brethren of the 

 firft eminence, performed the following* 

 operation. A tournequet being put a- 

 bove the knee, he made a large longitu- 

 dinal incifion through the gaftrocnemii 

 and foleiis mufcles into the aneurifmat 

 fac, and took from thence a very large 

 firm coagulum of blood. Having wiped 

 and cleaned the cavity with a fpunge 

 dipped in warm water, he tied the ends 

 tf the arteries which opened into the i&c 



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