Webb mentions an Irish woman who died of aneurysm of the aorta, which had perforated the sternum, the orifice being plugged by a large clot.

He quotes 17 similar cases which he has collected as occurring from 1749 to 1874, and notes that one of the patients lived seven weeks after the rupture of the aneurysmal sac.
Large Uterine Tumors .-- Before the meeting of the American Medical Association held in Washington, D.C., 1891, McIntyre a reported a case of great interest.

The patient, a woman of thirty-eight, five feet 5 1/2 inches in height, coarse, with masculine features, having hair on her upper lip and chin, and weighing 199 1/2 pounds, was found in a poor-house in Trenton, Missouri, on November 26, 1890, suffering from a colossal growth of the abdomen.

The accompanying illustration is from a photograph which was taken at the time of the first interview.

The measurements made at the time were as follows: circumference at the largest part, just below the umbilicus, 50 inches; circumference just below the mammae, 35 inches; from the xiphoid cartilage to the symphysis pubis, 32 inches, not including the appendum, which is shown in the picture.