Useful hints to those who are afflicted with ruptures : on the nature, cure, and consequences of the disease, and on the empirical practices of the present day / by T. Sheldrake.

  • Sheldrake, Timothy.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Useful hints to those who are afflicted with ruptures : on the nature, cure, and consequences of the disease, and on the empirical practices of the present day / by T. Sheldrake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ignorance, as well as assurance, than one would willingly attribute to any person who would pretend to be considered as a professional man. In discussing the merits of the above species of ban- dage, I have adhered to the general principle, as consisting of a belt, a pad, and an under-strap ; but it must be ob- served, that all these parts have been made hy ditierent workmen in various manners; particularly the pads have been made with springs, under the idea that these will produce more pressure than those pads which have no springs. This is certainly true, and therefore they are somet/iing hotter ; but still, as they possess all the radical defects of this species of bandage, they are justly con- sidered as equally imperfect in point of principle, an(.l therefore have been equally and justly exploded. The only cases in which it is adviseable to use trusses of the above description, are in persons who have ruptures that are extremely slight, and who are not called upon to make any kind of exertion, or Avhen it is thought adviseable to wear a bandage in bed, and the bandage generally used is found to be irksome: in such cases the'bclt-truss, of any description, may be used without impropriety; but when- ever It IS applied to persons in situations different from the above, it will always prove to be either the most irk- some or the most ineffectual bandage that can be used, 1 he next species of truss that has been adopted, was that which was formerly called, in contradistinction to the above, the Steel Truss. It was made of a strono- bar ofiron or stee fitted as near as might be to the sha% of the body: to this a_ pad was applied and fastened round the bod3. by straps m the usual way. This was found to cc^us'that'i't'' --'^q-^^' so extremely dan- gcious that It was very soon universally exploded • it would therefore be needless to enter into any desSlor; of Its principle, if attempts had not lately been made to pnSr\:V^''T''^^ ^ '^^''-^^^ ^-'^^ upon this :-eiy punciple, winch for that reason, it may not be imoror^Pr to explain, in order to shew its inefficacy ^^P^opei T^art respiration, the expansion of that Pait of the abdomen on which a truss is to be aoni ,! iVeathe Tn ' '^''^ S'-t-'^ter every time thev t c eeripti„rZ-? P-^'-^t/, a truss of either k Thrbodv ir?l ^^^''T ^^^'^^^^'^y' ^«t too