A treatise on hernia, explaining its varieties, situation, symptoms, and causes : to which is added a full description of the construction and application of the most approved mechanical remedies / by G.S. Acret.

  • Acret, G. S.
Date:
1835
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Credit: A treatise on hernia, explaining its varieties, situation, symptoms, and causes : to which is added a full description of the construction and application of the most approved mechanical remedies / by G.S. Acret. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    frequently otherwise ; we have at present many useful trusses, and we have also many that have been tried and become obsolete from their inse- curity, but again introduced as novel improve- ments, such are the non-elastic and some of those with spiral springs. The truth is, we are not in want of remedies, but of judgment to select these remedies. For the reader's infor- mation, I shall notice and describe some of the trusses now in use, and in so doing I shall readily concede to each any merit it may possess, or condemn any imperfection I may have dis- covered. It is possible I may err in judgment, but I will endeavour to be impartial. The trusses I propose to describe, as being in most common use, are—Gawan's Non-elastic Truss, the Old Serpent Truss, Egg's German Truss, Cole's Trusses for Scrotal and for Ingui- nal Herniae, Salmon's Opposite-sided Truss, and Adam's Graduated Pressure Truss. GAWAN'S NON-ELASTIC TRUSS. This I consider to be decidedly the worst description of truss at present in use. It is quite impossible to state the time of its first introduc-