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In this manner it continued to go on till the firflof 
January, in the afternoon of which the man began to 
complain greatly of being cold; and, notwithftanding 
the warmed: and mofl invigorating medicines were 
given, he grew more and more fo, till about eleven or 
twelve, when he expired. Neither before or after death 
was there the lead appearance of a mortification hav- 
ing taken place. 
However, in order, if poffible to inveftigate the 
true caufe of his death, and to fatisfy ourfelves 
whether the artery was or was not divided, in the 
prefence of the other furgeons, I laid open the 
wounded parts, and paffing a probe through the 
artery at a tranfverfe incifion made above the wound, 
carefully dilledted away the furrounding integuments, 
and thereby difcovered a perforation (about the big- 
nefs of a fmall pea) made through the coats of one 
fide of the artery. 
We were all at a lofs to account, why there never 
enfued any haemorrhage from fo confiderable a veffel’s 
being opened, as no efchar could well have formed, 
nor yet appeared there any conftridtion or com- 
preflion ; and yet it appeared as plain, that the 
courfe of the blood was thoroughly intercepted in 
that veflfel, by there never being the leaft puliation at 
the wrift after the accident. 
The caufe of his death too at laft feems to be 
pretty unaccountable, as no mortification enfued, 
which one would have expedled to have been the 
natural conlequence of the blood’s being fo inter- 
cepted. If owing to the Ihock given the conftitu- 
tion, or remora to the circulation, Ihould not one 
have expe&ed the ill confequences would have been 
felt 
