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Where fuch aneurifms are large, and 

 of long fl;anding, this method can have 

 no efFed. Mr Foubert * fays, that, un- 

 der fuch circumftances, prefTuje only ex- 

 ulcerates the Ikin, and makes the bag or 

 cyft open fooner, and perhaps fuddenly, 

 when the patient has no proper affiftance 

 near to flop the haemorrhage which ne- 



cefTarily follows. -Bleeding, and a low 



regimen, by lelTening the force of the 

 blood, may prevent their rapid growth, 

 but cannot be expeded to make a cure. 

 In fiich cafes, no compleat cure can be 

 made without an operation ; and, where 

 the tumor is fo fituated as to admit of 

 this, it ought to be performed. In doing 

 this operation, a tournequet ought to be 

 applied between the tumor and the heart, 

 fo as to put an entire flop to the circu- 

 lation in the part ; the cyft is to' be opened,, 



and- 



young genileman, fon to a Lisbon merchant, told hirn, 

 that he himfelf had been cured by this means of an a- 

 jieurifm, which bad come after bleeding in his arm ; and 

 the gentleman's father confirmed the account given by 

 Che fon. 

 * Meni. de i'Acad. de Chirurgle, torn. 2, 4to edit- 



