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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    who was one of the best: he made an excel¬ lent formed truss. The late eminent Mr. Percival Pott, Surgeon, to whom the world will ever be indebted, inspected the Rupture. I found the truss of little use; the thigh strap, which was of cotton, was not fixed to the hoop, but it hitched on a brass knob and constantly slipped off. On the most trifling exercise the Rupture descended; half my time was consumed in reducing it, and often in great pain. Above twenty times I have felt all the agonies of a strangulated gut, par¬ ticularly about four years ago in Dublin, ex-, pefting my death for two days, and preferring that to the surgical operation. Nausea, sweats, shiverings, cramps in the legs ensued; death was my only prospect— when suddenly and unexpectedly, from the applications used by my surgeon, the Rup¬ ture became reducible ; and, as far as I am able to form an opinion, a novel case happily for me occurred: and the irritation has, as far as I can judge, detached the omentum from the testis.