Not suspecting that the wound was dangerous, he continued to push forward, till he fell exhausted from loss of blood; when, on examining the hurt, it was found that the femoral artery had been cut; and before any proper assistance could be afforded, he literally bled to death.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig
Long after the last awkward lurch, there came back zizzing squeaks of perfect faith, and I hoped, as I passed beyond the periphery of sound, that instinct and desire might direct their rolling ball of vibrations toward the one whose ear, whether in antenna, or thorax or femoral tympanum had, through untold numbers of past lives, been attuned to its rhythm.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
And there was Becker the blue-eyed German prisoner with a bullet through his femoral artery and his hip.
"Sketches of the East Africa Campaign"
Robert Valentine Dolbey