I. An Jccount of an Extraorciinary Aneurif- 
ma of the Arteria Aorta near to the Bafis 
of the Heart, with the Jymptoms thereof 
DiffeSieJ by Mr Lafage^ Surgeon^ on the 
iQth of April, 1700. 
Fifteen years ago, one John Totin^ French-vcmi^ then 
Servant to my Lord Qdpeper^ got 3 fall, which 
caufed him a heavy pain in the Breaft for awhile. A 
month after , he being a (hooting, a Mufquet did burft 
in his hands, which gave fo violent a recoyle againft 
his Right fide, that it made him fpit blood immedi- 
ately, and continued for fix months. One year after 
he began to feel a pulfation on that fide, and then he 
fpit blood again , which continued ever fince, but 
only in the Spring and the Fall. He bled like wife 
by the Nofe twice a year, for a month every time. 
About four years ago a tumour began to appear under 
the Right Neeple, which growing by little and little, 
came at laft to an extravagant bignefs , and made 
him fo uneafy in his breathing, that he begged to 
have it opened, which no body being willing to do, 
he ufed fome emollient ointments upon it f of his own 
accord J which made the skin fo thin, that at laft it 
broke 5 then he fent for Mr Lafage, in hopes of 
help, but at the fame time the Aneurifma broke fud- 
denly, fo that when Mr Lafage came, he found him 
dead. Hereupon he defired to open his Body, 
which being granted, he found firft, that two of the 
Cartilages of the Ribs were worn off, by the conti- 
nual 
