The true account of all the transactions before the Right Honourable the Lords, and others the commissioners for the affairs of the Chelsea Hospital : as far as relates to the admission and dismission of Samuel Lee, surgeon : to which is prefixed, a short account of the nature of a rupture / by John Ranby and Caesar Hawkins, Serjeant-Surgeons to His Majesty.

  • Ranby, John, 1703-1773.
Date:
MDCCLIV. [1754]
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Credit: The true account of all the transactions before the Right Honourable the Lords, and others the commissioners for the affairs of the Chelsea Hospital : as far as relates to the admission and dismission of Samuel Lee, surgeon : to which is prefixed, a short account of the nature of a rupture / by John Ranby and Caesar Hawkins, Serjeant-Surgeons to His Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A ' **•. has given Opportunity to Perfons, who are regard¬ ful of their own Intereft only, of impofing on the credulous and timorous. To effedt which, in the flrft Place, they confound together the Ruptures of People of different Ages, and thofe of eafy Cure, with the Incurable, and fpeak alike of them in general, as if they were all equally griev¬ ous, incurable, and dangerous Diforders; and in the next Place, whilft they apply a Bandage or Trufs, and perform their Cures by it, they make a Parade and Ufe of fome fecret Remedy, which is of no real Service, but to which they pretend to afcribe the Merit of the Cure ; thus cunningly en¬ hancing their own Credit, and exacting thereby extraordinary Pay. Thefe Impofitions almoft all our Authors take Notice of, as the delufive Pra&ice of their Times, and, in our own, almoft every Day’s News-Paper produces fome Advertifement or other to the fame Purpofe *, fome pretending to cure by internal Re¬ medies, and others by external Applications. The common Name of this Diforder, a Rup- iitre> would naturally lead to a falfe Idea of it, as it implies a Laceration or Tearing , whereas it is really owing to a preternatural Dilatation only of the Opening above-mentioned, and therefore is not to be cured as a Wound or Breach of the Parts by Medicine, but is then recovered, when the Fibres, which compofe the Openings, have re¬ gained their due natural Strength and Contra (Tons. How little any internal Remedies which muft firft mix with, and circulate through the whole Mafs of Blood, can contribute to the (Lengthening a particular Part thus diftended and dilated, may be eafily gueffed. It is true, as far as they (Lengthen the whole Body, they help fuch a partial Weaknefs, but no . [ b ] farther.