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Excerpt from New Inventions and Directions for Ruptured Persons: Teaching Them the Art of Effectually Keeping Up Inguinal and Scrotal Ruptures
Page 203, he says, We are to observe, whether the edge of the girdle is immediately above the fissure of the buttocks; if itis not so, we must carefully place it there, and the cushion will be in the just and proper position for stopping up the aperture of the hernia.
Page 206, he says, as the truss is made to stop up the hole which gives a passage to the parts, so it is necessary that the cushion, (i. E. Pad of the truss), should be placed directly on the hole, not under it.
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