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dilated curvature of the aorta, protruding 

 up towards the throat ; and the cafes of 

 aneurifrns of the carotid artery related by 

 Haller and Mangetus *, and of one by 

 Harderus f, which appeared forae time 

 after a wound in the neck, evidently (hew. 

 The fubclavian and axillary arteries 

 have frequently been diftended and enlar- 

 ged into aneurifmal facs. Van Swieten if 

 gives an account of a large one in the 

 right fubclavian artery, the firft fymptoms 

 of which had appeared after a fevere 

 blow on the breafl. Not only the aorta, 

 but the right fubclavian artery, was dila- 

 ted in the cafe related in the Hift. de I'A- 

 cadem. des Sciences 1 700, and in the one 

 mentioned by Guattan, ibid. 1 750. Pa- 

 narolus Romanus § gives an account of the 

 axillary artery being dilated ; and, in the 



cafe 



* Opufcul. patholog. obf. 4. Manget. Biblioth, 

 chirurg. lib. i. p. 88. vol. i. Ibid. p. 80. 



f Obferv. anat. praft, obf. 86. p. 324. 



J Comment, in § 176. Boerhaav, aphorifm. torn. I. 

 f. 288. 



§ Pentacoft. 2. obf. 11, 



