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]
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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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    JoacVimus Carrierarius. Tells us, in his Obfervations, of a Gentle¬ man of great Note, who was troubl’d with a threefold Rupture, a Hydrocele, Sarcocele, and Enterocele, which prov’d mortal, from the Jn- teftines putrified in ; and that though he was a little reliev’d after it was cut, and the Water let out, yet on the fourth Day, a Fever fucceeded, and put an End to his Life. It weigh’d Forty Pounds. J. D. HorftiuSy Ohf Anat. 6. Gives us an Account of a Rupture made up, as he fays, Ex aquofa, Carnofa, Q] Varied]a. The oblong Tumor, fhew’d it to be watery, the Tefticle being hid to both Touch and Sight. The Wound might occafion its Carnofity. The Pain fhew’d it was varicous, which v/as ex** afperated by the Diftention of the Spermatick Veffels, whence, moft intenfe Tortures attend¬ ed Ere&ion. All Things were us’d in vain, for he dy’d. Upon opening, Vafa rfefi'iculorum °o art cum mo- do confiftebant \ dextri <T.etiiculi fpongtofa £9 pu- trida, Eunicdc que adnata erat, in dextra Scroti parte taro adipofa. Dodonceus, Ohf 40. Tells us, of a Hydrocele laid open in vain, becaufe the Tefticle v/as corrupted. D Jar. 7