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![\ I 25 ] tended with rhiich haz:ard, and, what is yet problematical, the danger Ihews-.itfelf, when,> from the profperous courfe of the difeafe, there is leaft xeafon for apprehenfion.; * ■ i- The f tuation of .this.tumour'prefented many difficulties. I felt confident of not injuring the carotid artery,^ or the par yag.ura and in- tercoftal nervesi'^ as they pafs .along the neck; but was not entirely at eafo-a'efpe^ing the right, fubclavian' artery, -the turnouiv dipping- confiderably . .under the upper., edge of the clavicle. The coraco-hyoideus mufcle was pxpofed through two thirds'of its length. It piay be proper to obferve that I was com- pelled to remove the whole of the integument .covering the tumour, .it having become..dif-. eafed and adhering clofely. , The .torrent of dark blood pouring out from fo large a cavity, and the noife occafioned by the rufliing in of air,, added to ,thp other appearances.,- :formed a pidure, more frightful than any.Lever bc- field. Such cafes, fortunately, do not often occur; but, in this melancholy and almoft hopelefs condition, fome confolation may arile to the patient, and an accefiion of fortitude may be derived to the furgeon, from the recital of this cafe. In tumours thus fituated .^ the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28042499_0008_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
