Practical elucidation of the nature of hernia : together with some remarks on the unfit instruments used for its confinement : with an explanation of the experienced utility and effectual cures of the instrument now recommended / by A. G. Hull.

  • Hull, Amos G. (Amos Gift), 1775-1835.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Practical elucidation of the nature of hernia : together with some remarks on the unfit instruments used for its confinement : with an explanation of the experienced utility and effectual cures of the instrument now recommended / by A. G. Hull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MODE OF APPLICATION After having stated the manner in which we con- ceive this Truss produces its effects, and the autho- rity in testimony of its superior utility, we deem it important to make a few remarks, particularly re- garding its aplication. This is the more indispen- sable, since surgeons, who alone are sufficiently ac- quainted with the different species of the disease, the anatomy of the parts, and the proper adaptation of the Truss, have abandoned their charge to apo- thecaries, and men entirely ignorant of the com- plaint. We also find that the most ingenious sur- geons, misguided by the instruments formerly in use, and forgetting the important principle, that the pres- sure should be made perpendicular to the rupture, have \ery frequently applied them upon the wrong side of the patient. In this manner the spring pro- jects some inches beyond the body, (unless it is much smaller than it should be when properly ap- plied) making a very unseemly appearance, and by flinging the pressure uDon the edge of the pad, de- stroys the principle of the instrument. For the pur- pose of rendering these instruments less liable to be wrongly applied, these remarks are accompanied with a plate representing them as adapted to the different species of Hernia. H—represents the umbilical truss ; A—the situation of the rupture pad in umbilical Hernia, resting with its centre directly over the rup-