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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    PREFACE. The folloAving observations were composed for the inftir- mation of those Avhose knowledge of ruptures was limited to the fact that they themselves ^vere afflicted with the dis- ease. Such may generally be divided into tvro classes, viz. those to whom the disease is an object of terror, and those who think it is of no consequence : the former tor- ment themselves with needless apprehensions, and embitter their lives with perpetual anxiety to avoid evils that are' created by their own imaginations; while the latter fre- quently betray themselves into imminent danger by tlieia- imprudent negligence. To re-assure the one, to caution the other, and U> point out to both the only course that will place lljeni m safety from the effects of this disease, are the objects which, it is hoped, may, possibly, be effected by thi&pabSi- cation. It contains what may be called a popular accotint ot the disease, i. e, such an account as protessional men will allow to be true, and patients may understand, without possessing that information which professional men have oi» the subjects On the radical cure of the disease it was not necessary to enlarge much, becaivse that subject is so well under- stood, the opinions of intelligent professional men are so hrmlyestabhshed, and the attempts to perform the radical cure are so generally avoided, even by empirics, that it scarcely seemed necessary to enter into that part of the subject; but, as a disposition has been manifested to revive somie exploded doctrines on the radical cure, it w^is thought right, in a work of this nature, to lav some of the well- known opinions upon that subject before the reader. Those which have been selected are either from Mr. Pott, whose aruthonty on the subject is now become classical, or are similar