Regulations of the New Rupture Society; instituted May 15, 1804, ... for the relief of both sexes afflicted with herniary complaints and prolapses.

Date:
1812
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Credit: Regulations of the New Rupture Society; instituted May 15, 1804, ... for the relief of both sexes afflicted with herniary complaints and prolapses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    : Among the afflicted poor, \v|iese xpeaii^.pf relief have been resorted to, during the existence of ruptures and prolapses, the unhappy objects age commonly disabled from fulfilling the prdhipry duties of their stations j insomuch, that in the army and navy it is an invariable rule to dismiss from the service those men who become ruptured by the violence of their exertions. How lament- able a fact is it, that many thousands of indi- viduals, perhaps during the period of full health and activity, should drag on a most useless and miserable life, for want of either the means or the knowledge requisite to obtain relief, when that knowledge and those means can so easily be pro- vided by their affluent neighbours ! This Society will afford an extension.of <jts bene- fits to the army and navy, as soon as the funds shall prove adequate for that purpose; and it al- ready includes within* the sphere of its bounty a description of poor sufferers (namely, persons af- flicted with Prolapses,) who have hitherto been left unprotected and forsaken. With a reference to this twofold object of its formation, it is named THE NEW RUPTURE SOCIETY, -FOR THE RELIEF OF BOTH SEXES AFFLICTED WITH HERNIARY COMPLAINTS AND PROLAPSES. !84 siumm & n£d The extreme danger of these complaints, and the great inconveniences entailed on those persons who suffer this dreadful calamity, to an innumerable host - .of trv^ffel^f^c^upt'^e- mongers, women-doctors, and .ignorant jippQ§£prs; SO-that “ no disease .(asethe late celebrated Mr. Pott observes) • has'ever furnished speb# constant succession of quacks as ruptures have.” These pretenders are to be found in almost every city, town, and village throughout$bjt£j^ingdpjqa',:-$>r, whoever can forge an iron hoop, or fabricate an