Regulations of the New Rupture Society; instituted May 15, 1804, ... for the relief of both sexes afflicted with herniary complaints and prolapses.

Date:: 1812

Credit: Regulations of the New Rupture Society; instituted May 15, 1804, ... for the relief of both sexes afflicted with herniary complaints and prolapses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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$Ahey will also take notice, that every contributor of one guinea per annum, as well as every life-governor, is entitled to recommend only two patients in the year requiring single trusses, or one patient requiring a double truss; and that a similar privilege is extended, in the like proportion, to contri- butors of larger sums. Rules for the Patients. 1. All patients must apply to the' surgeon (as before directed) at nine o'clock in the morning. 2. No persons but those who are really indigent, and who have either a rupture, or a bearing-down of their body, are admitted to receive any be- nefit from this institution. 3. The benefit of this charity will be extended to any part of the kingdom ; provided an exact description of the case, with a proper measure- ment of the patient, be sent (post paid) by one of the subscribers,, addressed to Mr. BLAIR. 4. Those persons \bhose cases require them to be visited at their own habitations, must give im- mediate notice to the surgeon ; who will himself attend them within a moderate distance, or (if too remote) will endeavour to procure the necessary attendance as speedily as possible. 5. If they neglect to apply or send to the sur- geon, for the space of ten days after the date of their recommendatory letter, he is authorized to decline relieving them. 6. They are punctually to observe the instruc- tions given by the surgeon, or the trusg-maker; and, when they shall have been relieved, must take a printed letter of thanks to the subscriber who recommended them, or forfeit all relief from this charity in future. 7- Patients who are discharged for irregular and$