The true account of all the transactions before the Right Honourable the Lords, and others the commissioners for the affairs of the Chelsea Hospital : as far as relates to the admission and dismission of Samuel Lee, surgeon : to which is prefixed, a short account of the nature of a rupture / by John Ranby and Caesar Hawkins, Serjeant-Surgeons to His Majesty.

  • Ranby, John, 1703-1773.
Date:
MDCCLIV. [1754]
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Credit: The true account of all the transactions before the Right Honourable the Lords, and others the commissioners for the affairs of the Chelsea Hospital : as far as relates to the admission and dismission of Samuel Lee, surgeon : to which is prefixed, a short account of the nature of a rupture / by John Ranby and Caesar Hawkins, Serjeant-Surgeons to His Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    { IO') farther. And as to external Applications, they cannot enter 4b deep as to thole Openings, with any Degree of Power, or contracting Force. So that no one will imagine that any fuch Ap¬ plications could be endued with a Power of con¬ tracting that one particular Set of Fibres of the Body only^ for if it could be ferviceable there, it would be certainly equally able to exert its Force in the Cure of every {trained or weakened Part, which has never yet been pretended to. The belt Surgeons have found by Experience, that the ilrongeft and molt powerful external Ap¬ plications are of trifling EffeCt in this Diforder, and unable to penetrate deep enough even to a01 ft or fhorten the Cure. All Medicines, internal or external, are for thefe Reafons rejected from the belt regular PraCtice; proper Reft, the Trufs well fitted, being proved to be fufilcient to effeCt every poffible Cure. There is not perhaps any one Diforder of the Human Body, which has been more fully confi- dered, or more faithfully and judicioufly treated, by all Authors writing on Surgery, both antient and modern •, nurnberlefs Remedies have been tried and difearded, various Operations have been invented and laid afide, and the boldefl Experi¬ ments made, both by the Knife and Cauftic, but without Succeis. No longer ago than in the Beginning of his late Majefty’s Reign, a new Method was propofed (at that Time a Secret) and recommended with rlb very great Encomiums to the King, as worthy of his Royal Encouragement. It was to' make a large deep Wound by the Ap¬ plication of Cauftics, which fhould take in and deflroy all the Parts which cover the Openings through which the Ruptures defeend, upon a Pre- furnption