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attachments, and other circumftances, of 

 all fuch as are in the leaft fufpicious, be- 

 fore they make any pundlure or incifion 

 into them j for many fatal accidents 

 have happened by their opening aneu- 

 rifms *, which they miftook for abfcelTes, 

 from their having no pulfation. 



Aneurism AL facs generally contain 



lamellated and fibrous-like polypous 



Vol. III. I i concre- 



• We have a great many inftances of fatal confe- 

 quences from aneurifms being opened, by mtilake, for 

 abfcefles. Vefalius was confultsd for a tmnour on the 

 back, which he declared to be an aneurifiu ; fome iimi 

 after an ignorant furgeon opened it, and the patisns 

 died inftantaneoufly of a profufe haemorrhage : Bonet. 

 Sepulch. Anat lib. 4. fedl. 2, obC 21. Lancifi gives a. 

 limilar cafe, where a quack roade an incifion, after he, 

 Lancifi, had given his opinion, that it was ah aneurifmr 

 De Aneurifm. prop. 21. De Haen tells of a patient, 

 who died from one of the knee being opened, after 

 Boerhaave had advifed the patient not to allow aa 

 aperture to be made : Rat. fMcdecd. part 4. cap. 

 2, Ruyfch fays, that a friend of his, though an expert 

 furgeon, opened a fniall aneurifm near the heel for an 

 abfcefs ; and the patient was very near dying of a hae- 

 morrhage : Obf. Anat. obferv. 38. Many more exam- 

 ples of this kind are to be found among the obferva- 

 tori. 



