Specification of William Clark : trusses and pessaries.

  • Clark, William.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Specification of William Clark : trusses and pessaries. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Specification. A.D. 1862.—N” 1858. 11 Clark s Impts, in Hernial and Orthopedic Apparatus and Pessaries, <^g. once. For this purpose I arrange on the collar B, and opposite to each other two elastic cords M, or two india-rubber tubes, or, it may be, one or more straight or spiral springs, by whose action the basin is returned to its normal or horizontal position from the vertical position it had assumed, in order to 5 facilitate its introduction as indicated by the red outlines. Fig, 9, so that any one can readily apply this pessary in its right place. The basin once in position may be afterwards raised at certain periods as the cure progresses, by means of the arrangement which I have before described for hernial pads. This reversal of the basin may likewise be obtained by 10 means of a non-elastic spring cat-gut, or by means of a flexible plate of metal, one part of which not in connection with the basin, passes as represented at Fig. 10, through a hole made in the plate for the purpose; and I may also apply the same mechanical arrangement as described, to apparatus for appli¬ cation to the rectum, and to umbilical apparatus, with such modifications in 15 size as may be desirable for suitable application thereto. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1862.