PHYSICAL AND LITERARY. 285 



The number of cafes related of true 

 aneurifms of the aorta near the heart, are 

 ahuofl equal to, if not greater than, thofq 

 obferved in all the other parts of the bo- 

 dy together. We have cafes of this kind 

 jn the Philofophical Tranfadtions * ; in 

 the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences 

 at Paris f ; and, in the other colled:ions 

 of this kind in the different parts of Eu- 

 rope ; befides thofe given by Riverius J j 

 by Severinus § j by Bonerus ^^ ; by 

 Ruyfch tt ; by Lancifi Xt > by LeDran§§ j 

 by Haller *** ; and an infinite number 

 of other authors, in moft of which the 



aortc^ 



* No 265. by Mr LaFage. No 402. by Dr Dod. 



t Littre, in the memoirs for 1707 and 1712. Mo- 

 rand in ditto for 1721. Maloet in ditto for 1733. By 

 a furgeon in the hift. of ditto for 1700. Guattan. 

 - ^n ditto for 1750. 



% Obferv. cent. 4. obf. 3. 



§ De noviffim. abfceffl. cap, 34. 3r. 



** Lib, 4 § 2. de tumoFo p. n. § 7, 



If Obf. anat. chirurg. Cent, obf, 37, and 38. 



JJ De aneurifm. prop. 21. and 22, 



§§ Obferv. de Chirurg, vol. i. obf. 40. 



«** Opufcul. Pathoi. obf. 18. 



