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aperture, and found that the upper pare 

 of the fac was filled with a firm fi- 

 brous coagulum, which afterwards, whea 

 it was taken out, appeared to be exadlly 

 fimilar to what is always found in aneu' 

 rifms which have been of any {landing ; 

 but the lower part was filled only with 

 recent coagulated blood. The aneu- 

 lifmal fac adhered finnly to fome of 

 the vertebrae, and to the lower ribs ; and 

 thefe bones were become carious, and 

 formed part of the fides of the fac. 



I then had the aneurifinal fac cut ous; 

 of the body, and, in dijGrc;(fling it away, 

 I obferved that it adhered very firmly ta 

 the lafl dorfal and the fi; H and fecond 

 lumbar vertebrae ; and that the pulfatioa 

 of the blood had wore away part of the 

 aneurifmal fac, where it adhered to thofe 

 bones, and that they were bare and cari- 

 ous on the left fide of their bodies ; that 

 a number of fmiU oileous fpliies had 

 grown out every where from the carious 

 parts ; and that the cartilage between th^ 

 firit and fecond lumbar vertebrae was 

 woie away for near half an inch deep on. 



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