Note on a Case of Ruptured Femoral Aneurism for Which the Common Femoral Artery Was Tied

operate. The patient was a strongly built and tall working man, whose staple diet was tea and bread. He was engaged in a rubber factory and had enjoyed good health till lately, when he had been troubled with chronic bronchitis. In the spring of 1899, however, he called upon Dr Veitch, complaining of two swellings which had appeared towards the inner aspect of each thigh. The swellings were of the size of a small tomato, and from their distensile pulsations and other characteristics were readily diagnosed as aneurisms of each femoral artery in Hunter's canal. No cause could be ascertained, and the patient stated that he had first noticed them after an attack of