244 ESSAYSand observations 



ed and kept upon low diet, by which the 

 force of the circulation was moderated y 

 a good fuppuration came on, and a com- 

 pleat cure of the rupture was made, 

 which fliewed his juices to be in a good 

 ftate. The keeping the knee bended to- 

 wards the thigh, while he lay in bed un- 

 der cure for the rupture, might have been 

 alledged to have given rife to^ the aneu- 

 rifiii under the left ham which firft ap- 

 peared, had not others come afterwards 

 in the right ham and thigh, where no 

 fcch caufe could be affigned. There was 

 no particular obftru(5lion in the arteries 

 for fome inches below any of the tu- 

 mours ; and, although we omitted exa— 

 mining the Hate of the arteries down to- 

 their extremities ; yet, as in fo many 

 months no gangrene threatened till the 

 circulation was flopped in the thigh with 

 the tournequet, and as the natural heat, 

 fenfe, motion, and fize remained in the 

 left leg, and that there was no more oede - 

 matous fwelling came on the right one 

 than was to be expelled from the pref- 

 fure of fo large a tumour in the ham on 



the 



