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 and foreign works returns of the number of various capital surgical operations recorded, and their re- lative success, I applied to him to furnish me with the number he had been enabled to collect upon the subject of aneurism treated according to Hunter’s method, and he has been so obliging as to furnish me with the following return :

Cases. Cures. Subclavian .... 80 46 External iliac. 79 62 δ ΠῚ 74 δ9 Femoral. «ces 113 i. Humeral:. ....% 30 24 W avtOUs:) uceeceks 19 9

989 977

And when you consider that the operation, as an established one, has, of late years especially, been often performed without any record of it being pub- lished, you will perceive that I have not gone beyond the truth in asserting that it has conferred life upon hundreds.

Among Hunter’s pathological essays, the one on inflammation of the veins may be mentioned with especial praise. He was the first who understood and explained the nature of the malady, and opened the road to the additional discoveries made since his time. In his paper on Intussusception, he inge- niously shows how the different varieties of the dis- ease are produced ; and in his Essay on the Forma- tion of Loose Cartilages in Joints, he satisfactorily