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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    18 Plain and Familiar CHAP. III. Of the figns of true Ruptures. What a figns in difeafes are fenfible sign is. JL marks, which difcover, and diftin- guifli them from each other. Some of them difcover the prefent ftate, the character, and the fpecies of the difeafe *, and they are called diagnoftic. Others again enable us to judge of the iftue ol a difeafe \ and thefe are called prognoftic. Diagnostic signs of Ruptures. The diagnoftic figns, common to all true hernias or Ruptures, differ according to the progrefs of the difeafe. When the Rupture is juft about forming, the patient feels a fmall pain, like that of an excoriation, or ruffling of the fkin, and that within the belly ; when the Rup¬ ture increafes, the patient perceives, on applying the hand, a fmall fwelling, which difappears upon prefting with the finger: when entirely formed, cholical pains, are from time to time felt in the part of the Rupture, and which extend to the parts about the navel. The diagnoftic figns, common to all the fpecies of true hernias, do, befides, difcover what parts they confift of, whether of the gut, or caul, or of both together. Thofe confifting of the gut are known by a fmall rumbling noife caufed by the wind and the fluid mat¬ ters contained in the gut, which rumbling is heard, efpecially, upon handling the Rupture, in order to procure its return. Thofe formed of the caul difco¬ ver themfelves, upon the touch, by a doughy refin¬ ance, like what we feel, when we come to handle a piece of tripe. In thofe formed of the gut and caul together, thefe figns are rnixt, that is to fay, they are found combined. Prog-