Practical observations on herniae : illustrated with cases.

  • Wilmer, Bradford.
Date:
1788
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    their Defeats of Skill they fupplied with never ceafing Confidenceand the daring Attempts, to which their Want of Merit gave Birth, were, by the Ignorant, thought to be the Proofs of it. Till the Time of Heijier, the Care of Perfons who were thus af- flicted was, in moil; Parts of Europe, generally left to Itinerants of fuch a -Character as hath been defcribed. Thefe wandering Practitioners, in all Cafes they undertook, ufed the mofl dangerous Methods : nor is it flrange that their Operations were often fatal to the Patients, whom a more rational Treatment might have rehored. In mofl Inflances, with much Temerity, they deftroyed the fpermatic Chord by Burning, Incifion, Ligature, or fome equal