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flammatory^kind, by blood-letting, emol- 

 lient fomentations, &c. till Mr Monro, 

 furgeon to his Majefty's military hofpi- 

 tals in North /America, was confivlted, who 

 immediately knew it to be a difFufed a- 

 neurifm, and performed the operation 

 juft now defcribed, taking out of the 

 cellular fubftance, in which the large vef- 

 fels and nerves of the arm lie, feveral 

 pounds of coagulated blood. For fix days 

 after the operation, every thing had a ve- 

 ry favourable appearance ; but at laft 

 a gangrene came on the patient's but*- 

 tocks, which continued to fpread, not- 

 withftanding the ufe of the bark, and o- 

 ther proper remedies, till it put an end to 

 his life *. 



Wpiere 



* The dififufed aneurifcn of the thigh mentioned a- 

 bove from Severinus, was occafioned by a gunftot 

 woijind; after forty days, an incifion was made into the 

 thigh, and fix pounds of grumoas coagulated blood tar 

 ken out ; the artery was tied both above and below the 

 3perture through which the biood was difcharged, and 

 in fix weeks the patient had the full ufe of his thigh and 

 leg, and was perfedly cured. 



