The history of ruptures, and rupture-curers, etc ... Occasion'd by a letter from a physician at Paris, to a physician at London, concerning a new and never-failing way of curing all sorts of ruptures ... by an infallible remedy, a secret. With a genuine receipt of the whole secret ... as also of a famous stiptick ... / By R[obert] H[ouston], M.D., F.R.S.
- Houston, Robert, -1734.
- Date:
- 1726 [i.e. 1727]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history of ruptures, and rupture-curers, etc ... Occasion'd by a letter from a physician at Paris, to a physician at London, concerning a new and never-failing way of curing all sorts of ruptures ... by an infallible remedy, a secret. With a genuine receipt of the whole secret ... as also of a famous stiptick ... / By R[obert] H[ouston], M.D., F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![( 3* ) therefore beware of falfe Promifes, fays Gen donius. Avicenna remarks, That a Rupture in tern der Years, with a well fitted Trufs, Reft in Bed, and a proper Diet, is much more eafily cur’d, than in any other Age, fcecaufe being growing, the Parts become Stronger, as they grow Older t And I have obferv’d, that the moft Part of weak Children, are Ruptur'd] but recover as they grow more vigorous and healthy. Many are the Accidents that attend fomd Umbilical Ruptures, becaufe the fmaller Inte* ftines are generally concern’d \ for when the Ileon is comprefs’d, the Diftribution of the Chyle is intercepted. Pain and Inflammation excited; hence vomiting of the Excrements, Hicup, and all the other dreadful Symptoms, that attend Death, if not timely, and artfully prevented. I am very fenfible, that feveral rare and ad¬ mirable Cures have been handed down to Us by Authors of undoubted Reputation, and that from Surgery we may hope for a happy E- yent, if taken in Time, before an Inflamma* tion has induc’d a Gangrene, as I have fre¬ quently feen in your Hofpitals, ev’n fuch as were pretty far advanc’d in Years, reliev’d from * certain Death, by the Hands of your dextrous Surgeons* To enumerate the Cures perform’d, and re¬ corded by Authors, would be fitter for a Vo* hurts](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30512645_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
