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ing freely, may caufe it to regurgitate by 

 any branches that come oflf from the dif^ 

 eafed part, and communicate with thofe 

 which arife from the artery above, and 

 by this means occafion an haemorrhage, 

 which will (top of itfelf on loofening the 

 bandages, as feems to have happened 

 once in the cafe related in Medical EiTays, 

 vol. 2. art. 15. 



As furgeons have been afraid of a mor- 

 tification following the tying the trunk 

 of the humeral artery, it has been pro- 

 pofed to cure fuch aneurifms without ma- 

 king ^ny ligature, by laying the cyft o- 

 pen, evacuating its contents, and then, 

 by m^eans of comprefTes and bandages, to 

 flop the bleeding till the orifice In the 

 artery and the external wound are healed. 

 Hambergerus, in the year 1732 *, gave 

 an account of a cafe cured by thefe means 

 in the preceding year. Dr Tfev/ f, in the 

 1 748, gave another i and fince then we 

 have had feveral fuch related in the me- 

 fnoirs of the French academy of furgery, 



vol." 



* Commerc. literar. Norimberg. 1732. p, 107. 

 ' t Epheraerid. nat, curio*!", vol. x. 



