A treatise on hernia, explaining its varieties, situation, symptoms, and causes : to which is added a full description of the construction and application of the most approved mechanical remedies / By G.S. Acret, truss maker, 39, Houndsditch.

  • Acret, G. S.
Date:
1835
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Credit: A treatise on hernia, explaining its varieties, situation, symptoms, and causes : to which is added a full description of the construction and application of the most approved mechanical remedies / By G.S. Acret, truss maker, 39, Houndsditch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    patient’s house prepared with a suitable truss. r After he had emptied the bladder I gradually returned the whole of the rupture and kept it supported for some time with my hands, the patient not experiencing any inconvenience nor the abdomen being very tense; I then applied the truss, and after remaining with him for an hour left him perfectly easy. At ten o’clock I again saw him, and found him suffering from nausea, violent head-ache, and pain in the side, the abdomen very tense, and the pulse very much accelerated. Mr. Robarts, who was pre¬ sent, immediately bled him and prescribed such other remedies as he considered most proper, ♦ which considerably abated those unfavorable symptoms, and they daily subsided. The patient was confined to the recumbent position about three weeks, and within six weeks after the first application of the truss he took a journey to Portsmouth, and has had his rupture controlled ever since. The most surprising part of the case, is, that so large and old a rupture had not contracted adhesions. CASE II. On the 20th of June, 1831, John King, aged