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A remarkable instrument beautifully
constructed from ebony and silver. It is comprised of
a cylinder hinged in two halves, a needle and a cover.
After restoring the hernia the apparatus was inserted
and the handle then removed, leaving the cover in
place for 6-8 days to produce adhesions which would
seal off the hernia. Which "By their most earnest
advocates have been considered applicable to the
smallest most recent and least troublesome hernias"
their value being otherwise "denied or seriously
questioned". In other words ... they probably did not
work! |
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