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feems to have been fooner put an end to,, 

 than otherwife it would have been, by a 

 prefTure made unjudicioufly on the exter- 

 nal tumor ; from whence Mr le Dran 

 takes Gccafion to obferve, that, in fucb 

 cafes, external prefTure does not affift the 

 cure, and is made at the expence of the 

 parts below ; that it fatigues the patient, 

 and often baflens death. 



From hence I think that Dr Freind ^ 

 and Dr Douglas "f are certainly in the 

 right, when they obferve that the curva-* 

 ture of the aorta is more frequently dila- 

 ted than any other veflel of the body^- 

 owing probably to the force of the blood 

 and the refiftance it meets with being 

 greater at this part than at any other, and 

 to this velTel being more apt to be gorged 

 with blood, and overflrained whenever 

 there is a flop put to the free circulation? 

 in any of the large vefTels, by any violenc 

 effort of the body. 



Th e inferior parts of the aorta, and 

 the large velTels within the abdomen, are 



not 



• Hift. medicln. in vita Pauli. 

 ^ De Pericocaeo, 



