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.
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![P R. E F A C E. ejected by the appHeation of i truss 'a v y wrd'S S at once opened tor investigation. The pretender, tn ihrcJel ^rr^r^ t^-^^^ empiriS ^h^ the cieduhty of ruptured patients in the present da^ aH of them pretend to unrivalled excellence, and infaliibk success ; most ot them have their vouchers,'and some W then- patrous, who use not the most justifial,le m^an lo putt their favourite nostrum into notice; and, wWe such urtihces are practised, it would be singular indeed if the unwary . ere not sometimes deceived. >rom a knowled!;' of these truths, it has been thoudit rio-ht to discuss thn general pnncipJes on which trusses^hould be constructed and to investigate the actual merits of those which are mo ^ obtrusively forced upon the public notice. The co^se quenccs ot this hivestigation cannot be equallv honouraU; to all ; yet. If it is fairly conducted, it m^' ultim.atelv pro! cure to each that portion of approbation which it wi 1 be found to deserve. . „,,I;V^^-''^^^'^^.>i8- the absurd pretensions of many to inhdlible success upon this subject, I have no contre-projet to set up in their stead. ] am convinced that almost every rupture requires a truss to be adapted to its own peculiar circumstances, and which, of course, would be improper if applied to another rupture, under different circumstances Ihe existence ot this axiom, when it is understood, will at once prove that the construction, adaptation, and applica- tion ot a truss, is as much an clFort of professional skill as the a]jphcation of any etfectual remedy to any other disease • there is the same room for exerting superior skill on one side and the same opportunity of doing mischief throno-h the rashness of ignorance on the other, as in the treatment of any other disease. Whenever this axiom shall be generally acknowledged, a field will be opened for men of talents and education to engage in the practice ofthiseinployment, wliich is now too frequently al)andoned to workmen of the lowest de.-xription. If I should succeed in doing this, the satisfac- tion of contributing to establish a rational practice, on the destruction oi'ojie species of injurious quackery, will amply compensate for the trouble it may cost ine. Besides](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21467493_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
