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Ruptured Poor" was established some years ac^o : another 

 society of a similar nature has been advertised but a short 

 time since. From these circumstances it mi^jht appear to a 

 superficial observer, that the public have already done enough 

 in providing for persons afflicted with this nialadv; but in 

 proportion as these societies increase in number, not in 

 magnitude, will their benefits be felt by diseased individuals. 

 It being by the ready and easy access by which relief can be 

 obtained, that the subject is rendered of more real public 

 utility. Hence, if small funds were raised, and connected 

 with every public dispensary, and if they were eveii ex- 

 tended to every parish throughout the kingdom (provided 

 there was resident in that parish a medical nian of science 

 and humanity who would undertake to Superintend free of 

 all pecuniary rewards), " it would be a saving t-o the com- 

 munity at large, by the prevention of accidents, which al- 

 ways tend to increase the parochial rates." 



This plan was recommended to the governors of the 

 Eastern Dispensary by Mr. Luxmore, surgeon, at my sug- 

 gestion, and has been adopted with much advantage to the 

 poor in that district. 



A subscription has also been ^;et on foot, which may pr 

 may not be connected with the City Dispensarv, but is 

 equally calculated to afford relief to the afflicted supplicants, 

 by giving to them the easiest possible access; and for every 

 guinea subscribed the subscriber will be privileged to recom- 

 mend three patients for single trusses, or one patient for a 

 double truss. 



John Taunton, 



Surgeon to the City and Finsbury 

 Dispensaries, Lecturer 30 .4.na- 

 tomy, Suigery, &c. 

 ©reville-street, Hatton-garden, 

 August 18, 1S07. 



Subscriptions and donations are received for the above 

 establishment by James Amos, Esq. Devonshire Square, 

 J^ishopsgate ; Mr. Elliott, at the City Dispensary ;. Mr. Mart- 

 Ictt, at the Finsbury Dispensary, St. John's-street ; and Mr. 

 Taunton, where plans rriay also be seen. 



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