Appendix to a publication, entitled New inventions and directions for ruptured persons, &c. &c : containing a familiar account of the nature of ruptures in both sexes / by W.H.T.

  • Timbrel, William Hall.
Date:
1802
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Credit: Appendix to a publication, entitled New inventions and directions for ruptured persons, &c. &c : containing a familiar account of the nature of ruptures in both sexes / by W.H.T. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The late eloquent historian, Mr. Gibbon, suffer- ed, and I believe died, in consequence of his Rup- ture, and his supine neglect of it. That a man of his sense should neglect himself, almost makes one suppose, there is something- in Hernia, that pa- ralyses the human mind. A physician of the first-rate science, a few years cilice, carelessly left off his navel truss, and died of a strangulated..Hernia. I must not blame in others that idle conduct I have been guilty of myself. Jean Jaques Rousseau was also a fellow-sufferer, In his family, who were respectable firmer^ in the county of Kent, Mr. L informed me of the following dreadful events : His mother died of a Rupture, as likewise his uncle and his sister; his brother has the same complaint; and Mr. L himself, who suffered twenty years-from the usual application of Trusses, is now completely com- fortable by the hew mode. Indeed, Mons. Arnaud positively thinks; that one person in eight labours under this complaint; others say, that a tenth, sixteenth, or a twentieth part of the human race is troubled with Hernias : either calculation enumerates a dread fill pro- portion !