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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    Two pounds of oil of lilies. Six ounces of the terebinth of Venice. One ounce of aqua-vitae. Pour the whole burning hot into gun-shot wounds. John de Vigo saw this recipe compounded.— The late Mr. Grose recited this Anecdote. Leprosy was once the scourge of mankind, and hospitals were endowed for the cure and maintenance of lepers ; yet now we scarcely know what is meant by such a complaint. The most dreadful complaints have been, and might be re- moved or alleviated, by human science. The Small Pox once wmecessarily ravaged the earth: but thanks to Lady Maky Wortley Mon- tague, who introduced inoculation; to Baron Dimsdale, for practising it, and also for the cool mode of treating that complaint; and to those noble medical men of the day, who adopted it: and thanks to Dr. Jenner, for his Vaccine Inoculation. These days of evil are passing by!—And shall Her- nia or Rupture yet unnecessarily desolate man- kind ? And must the poor ruptured man be forgot, and live miserable, and die wretched ? God for- bid ! Surely, Sir^it is worth our while to inquire into the very important position of mine, That