Aneurysmal tumor from the broken arm of a woman knocked down by a horse and cart, 1815. First drawing of aneurism and extensive ossifications with the aneurismal sac. Head of the humerus 1, lower part of the bone 2, arteria circumflexa humeri encircling the sac within 6, and the tortuous and enlarged branch of the humeral artery. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by William Archibald after an illustration by John Bell from his own Principles of Surgery, as they Relate to Wounds, Ulcers and Fistulas, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1815.

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