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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    m in males, that its retiia'n, wfeen the]r are become adult and pregnanty may be prevented as much as possible. During gestation it is often very, trou--' blesome; but after delivery, if the contents have^ contrafcted ilto adhesionv they will often return^ smd may be kept in their iplm& by a^ bandage*. -I ViM ^W canside'r the ventral' Hernia, whichy asMif. Pdtt sa^, .*^-May appear in almost any point of the fore-pai't? of the belly, but is most frequently found in or between the recti-muscles. Ihepoi'tion af intestine, &€. is always contained in a sac, made by the protrus-ion of the peritprt. nasum; when reducedi it should be kept in it^ place by a bandage, and if attended with stricture, which cannot otherwise be relieved, must be c^efully dividedt-—by a surgiGal,pjperation. I have now. Sir, quoted from Mr. Pott, a plaii;*- account of Ruptures. The inguinal, scrotal, fe7no' raljWnbilical, 2iXidi ventral Rupture; to each of which, a palliative cure or suspension of its dread- ful effects, may be applied. As to a radical cure, Mr. Pott's opinion has been sufficiently cited.— He says; that to replace the prolapsed body or bodies within the cavity of the belly, and to pre- vent their falling out again, by means of a pi'o- * Mr. Pott. * t Ibid.