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

It is hardly necessary to apologize to the public for the appearance of the following treatise. - Those who have the misfortune to labour under hernia, will be prepared to read with interest any thing calculated to lessen the danger of their situation, or to relieve the constant anxiety of mind under which they labour from impending mischief, rendered so much the more appalling by being enveloped in mystery, or explained only in technical terms which they cannot understand. But, by the members of a Profession justly ranked among the liberal arts, and jealous of its honours, it may naturally be asked of one of their own number pursuing the unusual course of addressing the uninitiated upon the nature and mode of cure of a disease so important and difficult to be understood: - Why do you appeal on occult questions in surgery, to those who have no knowledge of anatomy? How can you safely intrust the management of a machine to those who know neither the nature of the moving power, the result to be accomplished, nor the several parts of the apparatus which nature has provided to effect the purpose?

The answer is a simple one, and will fully explain the purpose of this essay.

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