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.
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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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    pfopofe for their Examination that Day, had left off their Truffes tor any Time ^ they took the Liberty of humbly reprefenting to the Board, <c that the Method of feeing and ex- tc draining Men, who, tor ought they knew, tc might have worn their Truffes ’till the Time they were preferred to them for Exanai- C£ nation, could not give them any real or fatis- cc factory Proof of their being cured of their Rup- cc tureS) they knowing, from certain and conftant cc Experience, that thofe Ruptures which have cc been kept up by Bandage any Time, feldom cc appear, or drop down at once, without Exercife, or foine fiTong Motion of the Body ; that forne “ grown Perfons, writh the Help of common cc Truffes, are cured•, and that tnoft would appear to be fo, though in Reality they were not, upon 46 fuch an Examination as this which Mr Lee 66 propofed, Efr.*55 This Reprefentation we left in Writing with the Commiffioners, having drawn it up at their Requeft, before we had their Leave to withdraw. After we were gone, the Board came to the fol¬ lowing Refoiutions, expreis’d in their Minutes3 thus : A At a Board held on Thurfday, 2 April, 1752. cc Prefent, the Right ZA/z. William Pitt, Efqy the .> iC Right Hon. H'enry Fox, Efq\ Lord lichefter, • Sir Philip Meadows, Col. Cofsley. ♦ cc John Ranby and Cafar Hawkins, Efqs*, Ser- €C jeant-Surgeons to His Majeffy, attended the Board, and declared their Opinion in Writing f concerning the Cure of Ruptures. / * Vide Appendix, n. j c. ‘ ‘ Mr Lee