Excerpt from The Final Report of the Committee of the Philadelphia Medical Society on the Construction of Instruments, and Their Mode of Action, in the Radical Cure of Hernia (From Three Years Observation): Accompanied by a Collation of the Practical Facts Contained in the Preliminary Report, With Notes, Illustrations, and Additional Cases of Hernia, and Diseases Resembling HerniaIn the eighth section of the Preliminary Report, (op. Cit. P. The Committee ventured upon a physio logical disquisition on the modus Operandi of trusses, in producing the apparently radical cure of Hernia, and their conclusion on this subject was presented in the following sentence.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.