J74 ESSAYS AKD OBSERVATIONS 



■wife for fome time after, otherwife therq 

 will be danger of a relapfe ; and if it has 

 come after bleeding at the arm, the pa- 

 tient ought not to ufe his arm freely for 

 a confiderable time afterwards. Mr Fou- 

 bert, in the fecond volume of the memoirs 

 of the academy of furgery at Paris, gives 

 two or three inftances of cures of aneurifms 

 from bleeding being made in this way ; 

 and we have the cafe of an old woman 

 related by De Haen *, where the fame at- 

 tempt was made ; but they were not able 

 to remove the tumor : However, after 

 two months, it had loft its tremulous 

 motion, and only a hard immoveable 

 lump, which feemed to cover the orifice 

 of the artery, remained ; it gave no un- 

 eafinefs, and the woman afterwards had 

 the free ufe of her arm f . 



Where 



* De Haen ratio meJend. part 4. cap. 2. p. 



t A furgeon of eminence, whofe veracity may be en- 

 tirely relied on, -told me of a practice (fcarce heard of 

 in this country) which they have in Portugal, of keep- 

 ing ice conflantly applied for a confiderable time in or- 

 der to difcufs ftich tumors ; and afTured me, that a 



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