. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Fig. 4102.— Dr. Chases Truss. it is more likely to slip upon the body than a paddedtruss, and thus to allow the descent of the intestine. Itis not worn with a great degree of comfort, except incases where the body is well cushioned with muscularand adipose tissue. It also has the hard pads, whichhave, as already explained, a tendency to cause absorp-tion of the tissues, weakening instead of making thering stronger. Dr. John Wood, of London, devised a truss for in
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Fig. 4102.— Dr. Chases Truss. it is more likely to slip upon the body than a paddedtruss, and thus to allow the descent of the intestine. Itis not worn with a great degree of comfort, except incases where the body is well cushioned with muscularand adipose tissue. It also has the hard pads, whichhave, as already explained, a tendency to cause absorp-tion of the tissues, weakening instead of making thering stronger. Dr. John Wood, of London, devised a truss for in-guinal hernia with a pad shaped somewhat like a horse-shoe. He recommends it as a retentive appliance in. Fig. 4103.—Hard Kubber Truss. place of an ordinary truss, and also to be worn after hisoperation for radical prevent a return of thehernia. He thus describes it: The pad for oblique in-guinal hernia is made with a flat surface, rounded offsmoothly at the borders, and of the shape of an obliquehorseshoe, with the outer or inferior limb shorter thanthe inner or superior. A cleft about three-fourths of aninch long and half an inch wide, intervenes Between theends of the horseshoe, Fig. 4104. This is for the lodg- 257 REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. ment of the spermatic cord as it lies upon the groove ofthe outer pillar of the superficial ring, external to thepubic spine, which is also placed, when the truss isproperly fitted, in the cleft or groove. The mobility of the healthy spermatic cord is so greatthat, when the pad is placed upon the inguinal canal sothat the cleft is opposite to the pubic spine, lookingdownward and inward toward the testicle
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