The true method of reducing ruptures, and retaining them in the abdomen, and in the navel: : together with testimonies to the merits of Mr. Brand's elastic truss; and several authenticated cases of the most extraordinary cures. To which is added, a postscript. / By Robert Brand.

  • Brand, Robert
Date:
MDCCLXXI. [1771]
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Credit: The true method of reducing ruptures, and retaining them in the abdomen, and in the navel: : together with testimonies to the merits of Mr. Brand's elastic truss; and several authenticated cases of the most extraordinary cures. To which is added, a postscript. / By Robert Brand. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with regard to the fafeft and eafieft manner of reducing the Inteftine, when fallen down 5 and the following is the method I have always pradifed with great fuccefs. I mtjst too premife, that I havefome hopes my Readers will not entertain a lefs favoura¬ ble Opinion of me, if I avoid the pompoficy of feme perfons who have wrote on this fub- ^ed * if 1 do not endeavour to raife my merit on the found of a word, and torture language for new-fangled and varying names, merely becaufe the fymptoms of the diforder are triflingly different* If the Rupture then be much enlarged, or painful, it will be of great fervice to the Pa¬ tient, before the redudion is attempted, to take a gentle cooling purgative* fuch as a de- codion of Tamarinds with Sena, or a folution of Salts and Manna •, and if he is of a plethoric or full habit of body, to let a moderate quan¬ tity of blood will be proper *, and at the fame time the parts fhould be fomented with a piece of flannel wrung out of a warm decodion of emollient herbs, fuch as Chamomile Flowers, Mallows, After
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