Such as eat wheat, by supposition 4,500,000 In the North, and in Wales 1,500,000 Against the fatting article 1,000,000 Against the two last articles 1,000,000 --------- 8,000,000 I cannot conclude this long scroll without recommending it strongly to the members of the Royal Society, who have many of them seats in parliament, and most of them interest in those that have, to get an Act passed for perfecting registers. The trouble is trifling; the expence nothing. It would be of great service likewise to number the people: and this might be done with great ease. I was not three hours in finishing mine on foot; tho’ it is, perhaps, as extensive, for the number of people, as most in England, being near five miles in length. I am, Reverend Sir, Your affectionate Brother, and very humble Servant, Richard Forster, _Rector_. XLIV. _A remarkable Case of an Aneurism, or Disease of the principal Artery of the Thigh, occasioned by a Fall. To which is prefixed a short Account of the Uncertainty of the distinguishing Symptoms of this Disease. By_ Jos. Warner, _F.R.S. and Surgeon to_ Guy’s Hospital. [Read Nov. 17, 1757.] WHEN the coats of an artery become by any means præternaturally distended, when they become wounded, or when they become ruptured in such a manner as to discharge and deposit their former contents under the neighbouring integuments, under the aponeurosis, or tendinous expansion of a neighbouring muscle, or still more deeply under the muscles themselves; the natural consequence attending this accident will sooner or later be a degree of elevation, or tumor: which species of tumor is known by the term _aneurism_. If a true aneurism happens, that is, a swelling arising from a general weakness of the coats of an arterial vessel, or from a wound or rupture of some of its coats, it may be often distinguished from a tumor proceeding from any other cause by a degree of pulsation, supposing the situation of the injured vessel be superficial; as may be evinced in recent aneurisms of the humeral artery, which sometimes happen from bleeding near the bending of the elbow-joint; as well as in aneurisms of the inferior part of the radical artery, of the ulnary artery, or of the anterior artery of the leg called _tibialis antica_; and as may be observed to be sometimes the case too in those arteries, whose situations are not superficial; to wit, in aneurisms of the _aorta ascendens_, the curvature of the _aorta_, and of the _carotides_.