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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    % whofe Ruptures fall down pretty low, without con- lidering, that the bufinefs is only to flop the hole, to prevent the parts from coming out; for when the cu- Ihion is placed fo low, the hole remaining unftopped, the Rupture comes out above the cufhion of the trufs. When the patients are thin, the trufs fails not to afcend, efpecially when they are in bed : In this cafe, they mufc ufe a fmall ftrap, which is fixed to the trufs; they pafs it under the thigh, and fallen it to the iron-hook, which ferves to fix the girdle; but they mull obferve that it ought to be put under the leather of the girdle, as otherwife it would be always apt to loofen. When there is a necefiity of wearing the trufs of nights, patients muft take care to adjuft or put it in order before they get out of bed of a morning, and as the motions they give themfeives lower or raife it behind, they mufl not fail replacing it in its due po¬ rtion, as otherwife the cufhion would not bear exactly upon the hole. With refpecl to children who are not cleanly, we muft be careful of drifting their trufies every day, to prevent the ordure from heating or fretting them. In plump fat children, the girdle fhould behind be a good finger’s breadth above the clift of the breech; in the thin, it fhould immediately touch the clifr, or even be a little iower. We muft be ever caurions in drifting their trufs, that the Rupture does not fall out again *, for this pur- pofe, we muft have ready at hand that which is to replace the orher, and lay the linger on the hole, till the fecond finger is adjufled. CHAP,