New inventions and directions for ruptured persons, teaching them the art of effectually keeping up inguinal and scrotal ruptures / By W.H.T[imbrel] Esq. To which is prefixed, a recommendatory letter by William Blair.

  • Timbrel, William Hall
Date:
1802
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Credit: New inventions and directions for ruptured persons, teaching them the art of effectually keeping up inguinal and scrotal ruptures / By W.H.T[imbrel] Esq. To which is prefixed, a recommendatory letter by William Blair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * intestine may descend, and which you must learn to reduce ; that is, return to its place whatever comes down, agreeably to these instructions. (See chap. 3.) 2dly: Then, under the pad of the truss is to be worn a calico roller or cushion, (See chap. 5). The rough edges of this cushion are to be worn upwards and downwards; and it is to be about a quarter of an inch broader than the pad of the truss, except the side next the thigh. o 3dly. As to the method of wearing the truss, (See chap. 6). Place the lower edge of the hoop part of the truss as low down behind as the division of the posteriors, but no lower, (See fig. 2). Put it straight round the body, pull it as tight as possible: it will lodge on and above the lower hip bone, and remain in its place on the aperture. If you be already in possession of a truss, wear it as above ; for it must be a bad truss indeed, that will not then, with the calico cushion, keep up a Rupture : but with a thigh strap fixed to the hoop, and a buckle at the bot¬ tom of the pad, the Rupture cannot descend.
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