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Animalia, quae suspicor eandem cum Ranis "Pulmonis structuram obtinere,sunt Bufones, Lacerta, Serpentes, Chamaleontes, Testudines , SalamandraAquatica, & si quae sunt alia Pulmonibus Membranosis instructa.

XXIII. In the Year 168;. a Servant to my Lord Culpeper, got a Fall, oi» Aneurisin*which caus’d him a Heavy Pain in the B east for a while. About a Month af- r '

ter this Accident, a Musket burst in his Hands, and gave so violent a Re- Lauge. zsycoyle against his Right side, that it made him Spit Blood immediately, and 6 ^ 6 ’continu’d for 6 Months. A Year aster, he began to feel aPulsition on thatside, and then he Spit Blood again, which continu’d, but only on theSpringand the Fall, till hcDy’d. He Bled likewisc by the Nofe twice a Year, fora Month every time. In 169;, or 1696, a Tumor began to appear un-der the Right Nipple, which growing bylittleand little, came to an extra-vagant Bigncss, and at last aster using forne Emollient Oyntments upon it(of hisown accord) it broke siiddenly, and he soon aster Dy’d. Mr. Lafageopen’d the Body, andtound thattwoof the Carttlages of the Ribs were wornoft, by the continua! Pulfation of the Tumour; part of the Sternum Bone wasalso worn oft, by the sime caule. The Dilatation of the Artery began pre-cifelyon its Trunk next to the Heart , before it divideth icsolf into the Af-cendmg and Defcending Trunks; and tho’there is but a little place, yet itdid Dilate it silf so excestively, that the Big did fili up the whole Cavity ofthe Thorax on the Right-side; andpreß’d th eLungsso much, that they werethereby much diminilh’d ; the Bag by the outside did adhere to the Media -(linum, to the Diaphragma, th e Pleura, and to the Sternum, in which it haddigg’d two great Holes, so strong was the Impulsi in; The inside of thatBag was lined, almost all over, with Bony Lamina , forne larger forne lester,hke so many Shells ; The Hea v t was miglvily relax’d, in so much that it wastwice as large as it ought tobe ; andamongst its Fibres there were some§tot^,Iike them which are Ibmetimes found in the Lungs ofScrophulousBodies.

Fig. 63. A, The Heart. B, Th e Aorta, next to the Heart, where thp t y pfiffAneurifma began. C C, The fame Dilated, making the Bag of the Aneu- F«gf 6z.'rifma. D, The Defcending Aorta. E E, The two AxiUary Arterie! . F F,

The two Carotid Arteries.

Fig. 64. A, The Heart. b b b, The Falvula Semilunares, in the Bag. F '&‘ 6 +‘

C. The Aorta Defcend.n<. D, The Orificeof the Aorta into the Bag. EE,

The two AxiUary Arteries. F, That pait of the Bag where it broke. 1,r, z, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, id>. The Bony Lamina in the inside of theBag.

Fig. 6 5. a, a, a, a, The Sternum Bone. E, Its superior part. C, Itsinsiri- F, S- 6 f-of part. DD, Its Right-side. E E, Its Lest side, in which the Carttlagesof the Ribs G G, were wanting. H H, The place of the sime Bone wornoffby the Aneurifma.

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