2^o ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIOMS 



the one quoted by him from Van Home, 

 where the artery was found dilated to fix 

 times its natural fize at the part where 

 it had burft. 



F.-iLSE aneurifms both difFufed and in- 

 cyfted have followed wounds and exter- 

 nal injuries in all the parts of the body ; 

 and it is needlefs to be particular in rela- 

 ting cafes of them. In the Medical Ef- 

 fays, in the Memoirs of the French Aca- 

 demy of Surgery, and in other books, 

 we have vaft numbers of cafes which fol- 

 lowed bleeding at the arm. Tulpius ^ 

 mentions one, which followed a wound 

 between the thumb and. fore finger, which 

 was cured by comprefiion. Thomas Bar- 

 tholin t gives an account of a large one 

 which came after a blow on the left fide 

 of the head, which was cured by opening 

 thecyft and tying the ruptured veflel. I faw 

 a fmall one on the temples cured by the 

 fame means. Albinus J gives an account 



of 



* Obferv. lib. 4. obferv. 17, 



f Obferv. ct epiftol. cent. 3, cpift. jj. 



X Lib. 3. anotat. academ. 



