New inventions and directions for ruptured persons, teaching them the art of effectually keeping up inguinal and scrotal ruptures / By W.H.T[imbrel] Esq. To which is prefixed, a recommendatory letter by William Blair.

  • Timbrel, William Hall
Date:
1802
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Credit: New inventions and directions for ruptured persons, teaching them the art of effectually keeping up inguinal and scrotal ruptures / By W.H.T[imbrel] Esq. To which is prefixed, a recommendatory letter by William Blair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lions, my instructions being observed, a re- ducibly ruptured patient, (the vertebrae and pelvis being naturally formed), may be as free from pain or danger, either from the disease or the instrument, as if he had no complaint at all. 1 ‘ Where the back is quite straight, and no projection of the posteriors, or of the lower hip-bones, (the great trochanters), I will not say but the truss may slip; yet* even in such a case, it has succeeded. Where men are formed in the usual manner, I aver that it can¬ not move. I have the honour to inform the public, my methods have been adopted, after an in¬ vestigation as to fa£t, with that liberality of sentiment that ever accompanies great minds, by some of the first medical characters in the metropolis. , I I fear my wish to be completely under¬ stood has produced some tautology. Agreeably to the suggestion of the Editor of the British Critic—indeed the liberal and b ‘ handsome