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
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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. 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.

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    The parishes in London, in some measure, provide trusses for their poor; but I fear, that in the country, many parochial officers know not what a Rupture is, and the rup- tured wretch only knows by his agonies. I wish in every parish in England there was a charitable subscription to furnish trusses, and to have them ready for their own poor Or their children; and, that an indigent man could as easily get a truss, as a loaf, from his parish officers. It would be highly useful, if the well-dis- posed would leave legacies to those of our hospitals—-St. Bartholomew, St. Thomas, Middlesex, &c. &c.—that receive ruptured patients in cases of strangulated hernia, for the specific purpose of buying trusses : one hundred pounds only, v/ould do much good. The hospitals can maintain the patients, but not provide them with trusses, from the na- ture of their establishment. I knew a woman who had endured the operation, and other instances of patients,whQ were obliged to be discharged without trusses j for