I. A POPLITEAL ANEURISM, IN A PATIENT WITH ONE LEG, SUCCESSFULLY TREATED BY THE MATAS METHOD
C. F., a colored miner, aged 41, was admitted to my service at the Hillman Hospital on July 8, 1908, with a pulsating tumor of the left popliteal space. His right leg had been amputated just below the knee, twenty-two years previously, as a result of severe burns. He denied any specific history or injury of this leg. He first noticed a lump, about the size of a lemon, in this region two years before, and said that it always grew larger when he was at work and decreased in size when he kept quiet. He had not had much pain, but the foot had been cold and stiff for the past year. The mass had not increased in size, and pulsated slightly; a bruit could be heard; it