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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    did not then annoy him, he paid no attention to it, and did not apply for advice until long after it had become scrotal rupture, when, on account of some alteration in its condition (probably a fresh protrusion), accompanied by difficulty in returning it, he became alarmed, and then, for the first time, applied a truss which was per¬ fectly useless, as was every other which he had since tried. I easily prevailed upon him to try the recumbent position, I applied one of his old trusses, which, with ten days’ confinement, an¬ swered every purpose, and this small sacrifice of time was amply repaid, as he has since expe¬ rienced no further difficulty. CASE IV. A short time since I was sent for by a gentle¬ man residing in Aldgate, and received instruc¬ tions to make two suspenders according to a pat¬ tern in his possession. This gentleman s rup¬ ture was single, perfectly reducible, not larger than one’s double fists, and principally composed of intestine. He stated that he believed he had tried every description of truss in use, but had never succeeded in securing his rupture above an hour or two at a time, he had therefore been