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Excerpt from Treatise on the Radical Cure of Hernia by Instruments: Embracing an Analysis of the Mechanical Properties of the Various Trusses Now in Use, a Description of the New Instruments Invented by the Author, and General Directions to Patients for the Safe Employment of These Instruments, With Hints to Surgeons in T
Let it then be distinctly understood, that in the choice of a truss, and in its proper adaptation, the aid of a competent surgeon is indispensable. To prove this, and to Show the nature and extent of the precautions which Should be employed in the after-treatment, is the main design of that portion of the treatise which is addressed to the general reader.
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