The institutes and practice of surgery: being the outlines of a course of lectures . Varicose Aneurism. Ill wounded by a bayonet, at tbe bend of tbe arm, during therebellion in Ireland, which, no doubt, transfixed the arte-ry and vein, for from that moment a tumour, possessingall the characters I have described, began to form, andgradually increased until it attained the size of a large egg.The veins communicating with it were uncommonly large,varicose, and very tortuous. Enlargements, also, of theartery, at the bend and middle of the arm and above theclavicle, were very manifest; all of which

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The institutes and practice of surgery: being the outlines of a course of lectures . Varicose Aneurism. Ill wounded by a bayonet, at tbe bend of tbe arm, during therebellion in Ireland, which, no doubt, transfixed the arte-ry and vein, for from that moment a tumour, possessingall the characters I have described, began to form, andgradually increased until it attained the size of a large egg.The veins communicating with it were uncommonly large, varicose, and very tortuous. Enlargements, also, of theartery, at the bend and middle of the arm and above theclavicle, were very manifest; all of which possessed astrong pulsatory, and, at the same time, oscillatory or tre-mulous motion. Although the patient had been, after hiswound, and indeed up to the period I met with him, ahard working creature, little or no inconvenience was ex-perienced from his disease, and he applied to me on accountof another affection unconnected with his aneurism. Thecase was in every respect so strongly marked, that I wasvery anxious to possess an exact resemblance of the origi-nal. With this view