White's truss pamphlet.

Date:
1858
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: White's truss pamphlet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    - «i»n ■!« C : Titvi' instruments received the Premium and Diploma at the late U. S. Fair, at Chicago, III. I .» * -A. NEW PRINCIPLE! WHITE'S PATENT LEVER TRUSSES AND ABDOMINAL SUPPORTER, For the Retention and Radical Cure of Hernia, &c. These instruments are radically different in principle and construction from all others ; com- ! i bining what is valuable in all others—with new principles of vast utility. The principle is the 6ame in the Adult, lufunt, and Umbilical Trusses and Supporter. The Bow used in these instruments is not a spring, but soft iron, to be shaped at pleasure. The power which is in the short steel spring is also a lever, and is entirely controlled by the screw, making the pressure upon the Pad heavy or light at pleasure. The Pad works over a knuckle, giving a circular inward and upward motto?!—Requires not more than one-hall the usual pressure, and very little en the back-Cannot work up or out of place—Pad-bearing changed, or the Pad itself changed in size or shape in a moment. These instruments arc the Smallest—Lightest—Snow , | Least-Most Durable-(No Rust)-Most Cleanly-(Entire covers washed at pleasure, and extra ;1« covers furnished with all the instruments)—They will do more for relief and radical cure than any f ] j other instruments offered to the public. Think of a Supporter or a Truss, and cspeciallvan Infant Truss, with the power perfectly °^'' control. Thchoopenlargedm-diminishedatplc.-isure-.' overs—anaan, jnstn< -> that will wear f0r twenty years, with all other advantages. It it wnrlh seeing at least. Ruddick's Shoulder Brace Suspender is the mostsimple and efflcientever offered. The . iwer is perfectly controlled by a single buckle, used as a Brace or Sui combined. Suspends skirts or pants, , BARNES & PARK, Gen'l Ag'ts, 13 & 15 Park Row, N. Y. COJ)MAN & SHURTLEFF, Agents for new-england;andthb provinces. No. 13, TREMONT STREET, BOSTON.