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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    fumption that, after the healing up again of thofe Wounds, the great Scar or Cicatrice remaining would have bound fo tight upon thofe Openings, as to have prevented any future Defcent of the Ruptures. The Method proved upon Trial ineffectual j but whoever has leen and taken Notice of the •great Hardnefs and Contraction, which remains upon the healing up of a large Wound or Burn, will readily comprehend what Alteration of thofe Parts was produced by this Experiment; much greater indeed than any Alteration which can ever,' in the Nature of Things, be effected by Appli¬ cations to the Skin only, without deftroying it. In all thofe Cafes, where the Experiments were made under the Royal SanCtion, after the Wounds were firft healed, the Ruptures did not come down for fome Time *, and upon this deceitful Appearance, the Gentlemen who were appointed to examine thofe Cafes, reported that the Patients appeared to be cured ; whereupon a very large and princely Reward was given by his Majefly to the Operator, viz. the Sum of 5000/. and 500/. a Year Annuity, and the Honour of Knighthood % but, in the Courfe of a few Months, all their Rup¬ tures returned, none of thofe Perfons proved to be cured, and the Method was publickly decryed, not without fome Reproach to the Gentlemen who had inadvertently made an over-hafty Report. Yet in thofe Cafes, after the Perfons were once declared to be cured, frequent and fair Examina¬ tions were fubmitted to*, all the Bandages were known to have been left off, and no Collufion or Deceit was fufpeCted in the Perfons upon whom the Trials were made. Now, if we compare that memorable Hiffory with the prefent Cafe, we fhall fee that there was not in this, even the fame Pre- [ b 2 ] tence