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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    i\J u ill fuel) Manner, that they concluded their Rup- 44 tures would come down fooner or later, upon their 44 ufrng Exercife, and that thefe Men were not 44 This they reported to the Board, and likewife €4 that both the Men had very apparent Marks upon 4,4 their Skin of the Wear oi a Bandage; and that 44 they had obferved one of them, when he put: 44 up his Breeches, roll’d the fore Lappet of his 44 Waiftcoat into a hard Comprefs, which he 64 placed properly in his Groin, and button'd 44 his Breeches exceeding tight over it, fo as, in *4 Reality, to make this Comprefs and Waift- 44 band of his Breeches an excellent Subftitutc 44 for a common Trufs.’5 This Account of their Examination of thefe Men, and of their Report, is taken from the ■Words of their Narrative*, read to the Commit- Boners, (in the Prefence of Mr Lee) who had themfelves feen, and examin’d the Marks on the Skin, and had been Eye- Witneffes of the Rolling ■ up, and buttoning in the Flap of the Waiftcoat tight into the Breeches. It was not then neceffary to be particular in every Circumftance. But as Mr Lee, in a Memorial deliver'd to the Secretary, Dec. ii, 1751* gives the following very different Account (attefted, as ufual, by both the Men’s Affidavits made before juftice Manley) it will be neceffary to lay all .the Circumftances before the Reader as they really happen’d. 44 Both thefe Men, Tanner and Curtis, happen- 44 ’mg to attend at that Time, and the Surgeons O * | ^ ^ 44 being order’d to examine them in an adjacent 44 Room, they there admitted each Man to be 44 perfectly 'cured, but in lefs than two Minutes u went * Vide Appendix, p, 12.