Note 17 — PART FIRST. OF INFLAMMATION. (continued 4)

[This aneurismal diathesis occasionally exists in an astonishing degree. Thus, Pelletan relates an example in which there were upwards of sixty tumours of this kind; and a still more remarkable one is recorded by Mons. J. Cloquet. In this case the number of dilatations exceeded two hundred, the largest of which were not bigger than a common pea. (Elements of Path. Anat., vol. i., p. 283.) An instance similar to that in the text occurred at Cincinnati two years ago, in a man between thirty and forty years of age, in whom Professor Mussey secured the right femoral artery for popliteal aneurism. Three years previously the same operation was performed on the left limb for the same affection by Dr. Speer, of Pittsburgh.—ED.]