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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![that he will pretend to be a mechanic himself; and it is unfortunate that he should introduce liis pretended iviprovc- 7nent and real invention, hy contrasting it with an account of the uneasiness produced by those trusses which go di- rectly I'ound the body, for it is certain that no uneasiness is produced by trusses made in this way, when they are pro- pex'ly adapted to the patients they are intended for : W. H. T. Esq. is right in his critique on Mr. Turnbuil's invention, but has made two trifling mistakes, first, in sayinj^ it w'as the usual mode, fi'om an old custom, and secondly, for .saying that that deviation from Mr. T's invention, which lie recommends, is his own discovery when ten thousand proofs may be produced to prove it has been the universal prac- tice for almost half a centurj'. The next part of W. H. T. Esqr's. ijivcntion that claims our attention is, what relates to the undcrstrap, and mat- ters connected with it; what he sa3-s on this part of the subject is comprised in the following words, the thigh- strap to be made of wash-leather, lined with thin tape, *' the end adjoining the buckle to be of neat's leather. *' The thigh-strap to be sown with strong thread well ** Avaxed, to the hoop part of the truss; by this fixture of the thigh-strap, the pressure will act on the bottom *' part of the pad of the truss. The bottom part of the pad of the truss is the part that stops the aperture : a double-tongued buckle I have *' invented, instead of the lower brass knob. This buckle *' dra-ji's and fixes the bottom of the truss close to the ab- domen. Thus far he goes in his first edition, which is DATzrf AND PUBLISHED IN 1800. In the second edition, c/r/^ctZ andpublished in 1802, he has added the following note^jl I communicated my hiformation to a truss-maker, a man of education and understanding, lately deceas- ed: but, though I suffered twenty-four years under his care, his pride, prevented him listening to me: his *' trusses, from my alterations and additions, arc now be- *' come perfectly useful. I never could get him realhj to EXECUTE the meaning (f the word fix: viy idea of it was, to soii) FIRMLY so as not to move.'' I know not who W. H, T. Esq. is, nor do I know * what * He says, 1st edit, p. 31. During a seclusion from the world. '* from bad health, ruptures and trusses were my /wUj horses, and I F 2 '> ]ria\'i:](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21467493_0063.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
