Useful hints to those who are afflicted with ruptures : on the nature, cure, and consequences of the disease ; and on the empirical practices of the present day / by T. Sheldrake.
- Sheldrake, Timothy, active 1783-1806
- Date:
- 1804
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Credit: Useful hints to those who are afflicted with ruptures : on the nature, cure, and consequences of the disease ; and on the empirical practices of the present day / by T. Sheldrake. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![of treatment in these cases, that has many ca-cumstances to recommend it, and which is supported by the successful results of different practical trials. Why sur'reons, who are acquainted with the anatomical structure ot^ the ]>arts, have not, by availing themselves of mechanical science, treated deformations of this and other kinds on philosophi- cal principles, we are not enabled to say ; but certain it is that they are rarely undertaken by persons thus educated.' The author of this essay presents his plan of treat- ment fairly to the notice of the professional inquirer, and claims his regard on these grounds. Pref. p. ii.— The situation, says he, in which I was bred, having given me numerous opportunities of ** seeing these diseases, in all their varieties, and ofseehig they were always treated in a way from which little be^ ** nefit was derived, naturally directed my mind to the subject; and the nature of my professional education *' and pursuits, during the last twenty years, having ena- ** bled me to consider them in a way that had escaped *' the observation of others, and to make numerous expe- ** riments, in hopes of being able to cure them, I at last *' succeeded in some cases, in an eminent degree. An ac- count of these cases was published several yearsago ; and the attention that publication excited, procured me *' numerous opportunities for pursuing my enquiries on *' this subject, the result of which will be found in the fol- ** lowing pages. In a former work*, of which the present would seem to be a continuation, Mr. S. showed what had been done by other practitioners, with a vieAv to remedy these defor- mities. Pref. p. iii.—The present essay contains the his- toryofsome cases, which were placed, with unhmited *' confidence, under my care, and in which I was, Mfre- /ore, .perfectly successful. And, as I knew I must en- *' counter the scoffs of hicredulity, the doubts of scepti- cism, and the insinuations of those who might be en- vious of my success, I had the precaution to request, that they might be shewn to gentlemen in the profession * See our Rev. Vol. xxy. p. 3i.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21467493_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
