Practical observations on the management of ruptures : in two parts : part I. New inventions and directions for ruptured persons : part II. A familiar account of the nature of ruptures in both sexes / by William Hall Timbrel ... ; to which are prefixed two recommendatory letters by William Blair ... ; from the last London edition, with engravings.

  • Timbrel, William Hall.
Date:
1809
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Credit: Practical observations on the management of ruptures : in two parts : part I. New inventions and directions for ruptured persons : part II. A familiar account of the nature of ruptures in both sexes / by William Hall Timbrel ... ; to which are prefixed two recommendatory letters by William Blair ... ; from the last London edition, with engravings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fits; but the elasticity of our modern trusses venders such an inquiry unnecessary. From the number of impositions that have appeared in the world, on the subject of Rup- ture, one's mind is almost paralysed. I owe too much respect to the world and myself to trifle ; I will assert, therefore, from my own experience and that of many others, that dur- ing the most laborious exertions, my instruc- tions being observed, a reducibly ruptured pa- tient, (the vertebra: and pelvis being naturally formed), may be as free from pain or dan- ger, either from the disease or the instrument, as if he had no complaint at all. Where the back is quite straight, and there is 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 form- ed in the usual manner, I aver that it cannot move. Great leanness and excessive fatness are inconveniences, with respect to the disorder, which oppose the stability of the truss and ren- ders its use difficult. ARNAUD.