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Trusses

Rigid structure that consists of two-force members only

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    Practical remarks on hernia trusses : being a communication made to the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, on the 24th March, 1862 / by Joseph Arbuckle.

    | Date: 1862
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    Hints for the improvement of trusses : intended to render their use less inconvenient, and to prevent the necessity of an understrap : with the description of a truss of easy construction and slight expense, for the use of the labouring poor, to whom this little tract is chiefly addressed / by James Parkinson.

    | Date: 1802
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    Remarks on Mr. Brand's chirurgical essays : on the causes and symptoms of ruptures, their natural consequences, if neglected, and the various dangers in applying trusses; with a short but true history of the invention of Mr. Brand's patent elastic trusses ... / By T. Sheldrake, Junior.

    Sheldrake, Timothy, -1770 | Date: 1782
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    Specification of William Robert Lake : pads for trusses.

    Lake, William Robert. | Date: 1871
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