Specification of Robert Gillespie : trusses.

  • Gillespie, Robert.
Date:
1857
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Robert Gillespie : trusses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gillespies Improvements in Trusses. spinous process of the ilium, and, passing on the back of the thigh, returns in front and attaches near the same place; thus holds the instrument down and prevents a displacement upwards. When the parts about the abdominal rings have become sore from the pressure of the instrument, it sometimes 5 becomes necessary to interpose a piece of soft linen between the rupture and the skin; and in case the skin becomes irritated by the pressure of the rupture head, the irritated part should be bathed with cold water or a cold and slightly astringent solution of alum. In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Gillespie, have hereunto set my 10 hand and seal, this Third day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. ROBERT (l.s.) GILLESPIE. AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Third day of April, in the year of our Lord 1835, the aforesaid Robert Gillespie came before our said 15 Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore¬ said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose. Inrolled the Second day of October, in the year of our Lord One 20 thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1857. Trower.