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  • Lumbar hernia, after treatment with a truss
  • Trade card of James Lane, truss-maker, 1734
  • Architecture: various types of roof truss. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Truss-maker's trade-card
  • Surgical instruments, including Dr. Hulme's truss. Engraving by Wilson Lowry after J. Farey jun., 1812.
  • Engineering: a wide-span wooden truss-beam roof. Engraving by J. Davis after R. Tredgold, 1820.
  • Figure of a 16th century Truss, woodcut. From Peter Lowe's Chyrurgerie.
  • Truss for hernia. From Palestine. The spring for encrcling the waist is covered with fabric.
  • The shopfront of the truss-maker Timothy Sheldrake, at No. 50 The Strand, London; royal coat of arms above the bay window. Engraving by T. Medland, ca. 1820.
  • Truss for hernia. From India. the pad is furnished with a spring, which can be adjusted to regulate the pressure.
  • Hints for the improvement of trusses; intended to render their use less inconvenient, and to prevent the necessity of an understrap. With the description of a truss of easy construction and slight expence [sic], for the use of labouring poor / [James Parkinson].
  • A treatise on hernia, explaining its varieties, situation, symptoms, and causes : to which is added a full description of the construction and application of the most approved mechanical remedies / By G.S. Acret, truss maker, 39, Houndsditch.
  • A treatise on hernia, explaining its varieties, situation, symptoms, and causes : to which is added a full description of the construction and application of the most approved mechanical remedies / By G.S. Acret, truss maker, 39, Houndsditch.
  • A treatise on hernia, explaining its varieties, situation, symptoms, and causes : to which is added a full description of the construction and application of the most approved mechanical remedies / By G.S. Acret, truss maker, 39, Houndsditch.
  • A treatise on hernia, explaining its varieties, situation, symptoms, and causes : to which is added a full description of the construction and application of the most approved mechanical remedies / By G.S. Acret, truss maker, 39, Houndsditch.
  • A treatise on hernia, explaining its varieties, situation, symptoms, and causes : to which is added a full description of the construction and application of the most approved mechanical remedies / By G.S. Acret, truss maker, 39, Houndsditch.
  • A treatise on hernia, explaining its varieties, situation, symptoms, and causes : to which is added a full description of the construction and application of the most approved mechanical remedies / By G.S. Acret, truss maker, 39, Houndsditch.
  • A treatise on hernia, explaining its varieties, situation, symptoms, and causes : to which is added a full description of the construction and application of the most approved mechanical remedies / By G.S. Acret, truss maker, 39, Houndsditch.
  • Advertisment for Cole's patent trusses, early 19th century
  • Architecture: various roof trusses. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • Architecture: various roof trusses. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • Architecture: various roof trusses. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • Architecture: various roof trusses. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • Architecture: various roof trusses. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • Surgical instruments: trusses. Engraving with etching by T. Jefferys.
  • Plate XVIII, Various types of hernia trusses and pessaries.
  • Surgical instruments including trusses and tourniquets. Engraving with etching.
  • Architecture: diagrammatic roof trusses. Engraving [after S. H. Brooks?], 1850.
  • Architecture: two composite roof trusses. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • Architecture: diagrammatic roof trusses. Engraving [after S. H. Brooks?], 1850.