New inventions and directions for ruptured persons : teaching them the art of effectually keeping up inguinal and scrotal ruptures / by W.H.T. Esq. ; to which is prefixed a recommendatory letter by William Blair.

  • Timbrel, William Hall.
Date:
1802
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: New inventions and directions for ruptured persons : teaching them the art of effectually keeping up inguinal and scrotal ruptures / by W.H.T. Esq. ; to which is prefixed a recommendatory letter by William Blair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

    22/94 (page 20)
    50 possession fit for use. He should never^ night or day, be without his truss on: for a cough in the night might produce a fatal descent and stricture ; and by permitting the Rupture to descend, Nature has no chance of recovering the power of retaining the parts in their position. He should, as soon as the complaint comes on, obtain medical advice; and lose no time* as by delay adhesions may be formed, which might have been prevented. The patient him- self should learn to sew the thigh strap to the hoop part, and have by him more straps and calico cushions than trusses. All persons, even those who are not rup- tured, should, when riding on horseback, wear leathern breeches; as they keep the in- testines in a state of quietude, therefore are less likely to become ruptured from violent, exertions. The utmost caution is necessary, to observe that the Rupture is reduced before the truss be put on, or much harm, even death itself, might