Plain and familiar instructions for persons afflicted with ruptures : in which are given distinct notions of these maladies, and the most proper means of curing them. With rules and directions for the use and application of trusses. To which is added a dissertation upon the disorders of the urethra / by George Arnaud.

  • Arnaud de Ronsil, Georges, 1698-1774.
Date:
1754
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Credit: Plain and familiar instructions for persons afflicted with ruptures : in which are given distinct notions of these maladies, and the most proper means of curing them. With rules and directions for the use and application of trusses. To which is added a dissertation upon the disorders of the urethra / by George Arnaud. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    means of preventing their fymptoms. It often hap¬ pens, that a patient is in the greateft agony, when fur- geons come to his relief, and that he dies by a negledt to employ the firft remedies feafonably. I have feen numbers die, fome through an ignorance of their condition, others from a delicacy infpired by mo* defty ft ; others confefting their misfortune; others for having been in country places, far diftant from the towns where the neceffary means of relief were to be had, and the greateft number for want of hav¬ ing due care taken ot them. As every one will have it in his power from this work to know thefe difor- ders, together with their fymptoms, and the me¬ thods of removing them, fo no perfon for the future ought to alledge his ignorance as an excufe for his negligence. When it is known that thefe diforders are common to every body, that a fagacious andfkil- ful furgeon can remove them, without offending a- gainft the ftridieft laws of modefty. and that it is his intereft to keep the fecret, people will become lefs fcru- pulous in feeking for the means of relief, and with an entire confidence commit themfelves to his care.Thofe who are too far diftant to have the neceffary affiftance foon enough, will know what remedies are to be ufed, while they wait for the arrival of a fkilful furgeon, whom patients fometimes cannot find but at a great diftance. This interval of time, which is always pre¬ cious, will be employed in ufing the proper remedies, which I fhall carefully fpecify, when it is known that the whole fuccefs of the beft methods,which th^moft fkilful furgeon can put in practice, depends on the good ufe which has been made of the remedies indi¬ cated in the beginning of the diforder. I have a frefn inftance of this. A gentlewoman from Bath who lodged in the ho ufe of Mr. Davy, in Beaufort Build- f This reafon induced me to inftrmft in that branch a gen¬ tlewoman to attend the ladies, on account of the reluftance with which they intrufl themfelves to men. j B 4 ings