Plain and familiar instructions for persons afflicted with ruptures : in which are given distinct notions of these maladies, and the most proper means of curing them. With rules and directions for the use and application of trusses. To which is added a dissertation upon the disorders of the urethra / by George Arnaud.

  • Arnaud de Ronsil, Georges, 1698-1774.
Date:
1754
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Credit: Plain and familiar instructions for persons afflicted with ruptures : in which are given distinct notions of these maladies, and the most proper means of curing them. With rules and directions for the use and application of trusses. To which is added a dissertation upon the disorders of the urethra / by George Arnaud. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ftruggle through the remains of a languifliing and miferable life, under the weight of their calamities. Families, cities, and even kingdoms, are fometimes almoft univerfally afflidted with ruptures, without ever fo much as thinkingon the means of curing them. The patients are deplorable victims of that negledt and contempt, into which the makers of the art have buffered thefe diforders to fall. Surgeons leave the treatment of patients afflidted with ruptures to common workmen, whofe meafures prove mortal to an incredi¬ ble number of their fellow-creatures, as I have fhewn in the preface of my larger work on thefe diforders *. Thefe men, incapable of making the fmalleft difco- veries in the nature, or improvements in the cure, of thefe diforders, have greatly injured and depreciated, in the efteem of others, thole from whofe {kill real relief might be expedted : fo that this part of furgery is fallen into fo great a difcredit that every man who profefles himfelf a furgeon for ruptures is looked up¬ on as a quack : but this prejudice would be difiipa- ted, if all thofe who a flu me this character were able and fkilful furgeons. On account of the great trufb with which the public has honoured me, I think it my duty, in point of gratitude, to fupply them, by way of inftrudtions, with a general knowledge of thefe difeafes, and of the * Thofe who defire a fuller account may be fatisfied by pro¬ viding themfelves with the complete edition, in a large volume 8voof this work, in titled 5 a Dijfertation on Hernia s,or Ruptures, fold bynA. Millar, bookfeller, oppofite to Catherine Street in the Strand, London, in which all the tricks of the quacks are revealed : the anatomical difpofitions of the parts concerned in ruptures are explained : the remedies proper for all cafes are defended : and a great number of obfervations on various and extraordinary cures are related. The author has alfo pub- ]jibed a Dijfertation upon Hermaphrodites, (with copper plates) relative to the fame fabjedt. means