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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    The ruptured patient goes unrelieved from patentee to patentee, from truss-maker to truss- maker, and laments his wretched Rupture ; when the only lamentable fact is, that he has a wretched Truss, more wretchedly put on. In the reign of King George the First or Second, the parliament granted five thousand pounds to a pretended curer of Ruptures. I must quote from the ingenious Mr. White's Antiquities of Selborne, in Hamp- shire, an anecdote he there relates, of a rustic mode of curing Ruptures in children :— At Tring, in Hertfordshire, a young ash tree is sawn partly in two, the ruptured child is drawn nine times through the middle of the tree, which is then closed up, covered with clay, and tied together ; if the tree lives, the child is to be cured of its malady. I have heard of the same judicious method in other places ! ! !