Regulations of the New Rupture Society including a list of its governors, members, and officers, with a short account of the present state of this institution Instituted May 15, 1804, under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of York, for the relief of both sexes afflicted with herniary complaints and prolapses.

  • New Rupture Society (London)
Date:
1815
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Credit: Regulations of the New Rupture Society including a list of its governors, members, and officers, with a short account of the present state of this institution Instituted May 15, 1804, under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of York, for the relief of both sexes afflicted with herniary complaints and prolapses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    elastic compress, thinks liimself qualified to undertake the cure of an infirmity, the treatment of which demands as much ana- tomical and surgical knowledge as any disorder incident to Im- man nature. If a greater mischief can happen to the rup-' tured poor than the malady with which they are visited, it is that of unhappily falling into the hands of unprincipled or ig- norant truss-makers and empirics; who have no skill, but in the art of money-getting, and no idea of the curative means, but by rude mechanical pressure. This Society wjU afford a more ample extension of its be- nefits to the army and navy, as soon as its funds shall prove 0 adequate for that purpose; and it includes within the sphere of its bounty a description of poor sufferers (namely, persons afflicted with Piiolapses,) who have heretofore been left unprotected and forsaken. With a reference to this two- fold object of its formation, it is named THE NEW RUP^ TURE SOCIETY, FOR THE RELIEF OF THE POOR OF BOTH SEXES AFFLICTED WITH HERNIARY COMPLAINTS AND PROLAPSES. The great national importalice of relieving the necessitous and afflicted class of people here alluded to, must be suffi- ciently obvious to every reflecting mind; and when it is dis- tinctly made known how small a sum will be annually required for the comfort and security of so many deplorable sufferers, it is hoped no feeling spectator of such wretchedness can with- hold his contribution. The Nezo Rupture Societ^ wBs instir- ;^uted on the 15th of May 1804, by a respectable meeting of benevolent gentlemen, convened at the Freemasons' Tavern; and patients were admitted on the 6th of July 1805, since V hich time the number of persons applying for trusses has been rapidly and progressively increasing. The Q/early number of patients hitherto attended by the Surgeon of this Charity, most of whom vvere totally destitutp of the necessary Apparatus for their personal §afetv, is a|( to[lo\ys: '1805 to 1806 76 1806 to 1807 252 1807 to 1808 ' ■407 1808 to 1809 3.99 1803 to UMO 496 1 1810 to 1811 554 18ll to 1812 66» j 1812 to 18li3 903 J813 to 1814 1009 L1614 to 1815 115«