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Excerpt from The Penny Cyclopedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Vol. 2: Andocides Athanagilde
Excepting in tho exceedingly rare case in which the spontaneous cure, already ex lained, is effected. This disease, when left toitself. Uniform y proves fatal by the ultimate rupture of the tumor. In consequence of which the patient expires either instantaneously from the gnaat and sudden loss of blood, or b degnees from repeated losses of it. And yet anterior to t 0 time of Galen, who lived about the middle of the second century. There is to be found no record whatever of this terrible malady. The older practitioners, in deed, who believed that the arteries were air-tubes, could have had no conception of the existence of an aneurism. It has been justly observed, that were the number of individuals in Europe who are now annual] cured of aneurism by the inter ference of art, to be assum as the basis of a calculation of the number of rsons who must have perished by this dis ease. From the eginning of the world to the time of Galen, it would hel to convey some conception of the extent to which anatomical hnowledge is the means of saving human life.
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