| Description Of Item | Notes on ‘aneurisma’, defining it as ‘a soft lax tumor, caused from a Dilatation of the artery by its blood’. It mentions the risk of gangrene, while also stating that ‘if inward tis not to be cured’. It recommends to ‘keep it strictly binded with a plate of lead: if this fail tie the ends of the artery, & cut it in the middle’.
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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