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at the ham, "filled the wound with fofc 

 lint, and applied proper bandages. 



For three days after the operation, 

 every thing feemed to do well ; there was 

 a kindly warmth in the foot, and no 

 more fever than was to be expe(5led after 

 fuch an operation ; but, on the fourth 

 day, the patient began to fink, the foot 

 to feel cold, and a gangrene to appear on 

 the fides of the wound ; and he died the 

 fixth day after the operation. 



CASE IX. 



The following cafe was fimilar to that of 

 John Parker, in the patient's having more 

 aneurifms than one, and there being feem- 

 ingly an univerfal weaknefs of the ar- 

 terious fyftem, and a difpofition to form 

 aneurifms. 



A middle aged man, who ufed to be 

 employed in hufbandry work, about 

 Michaelmas 17^4, after being one day 



muck 



