Cases of varicocele trated by pressure, with observations / [Thomas Blizard Curling].

  • Curling, Thomas Blizard, 1811-1888
Date:
1846]
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Credit: Cases of varicocele trated by pressure, with observations / [Thomas Blizard Curling]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASKS VARICOCELE » TREATED BY PRESSURE, WITH OBSERVATIONS. By T. B. CURLING, LECTURER ON SURGERY, AND ASSISTANT -SURGEON, AT THE LONDON HOSPITAL. Received April 1st—Read June 9th, 1846. Three years ago, a case of varicocele, cured by the applica¬ tion of pressure to the spermatic veins, came under my notice, and being struck with the peculiar adaptation of this plan of treatment, to counteract the injurious effects of the dilated veins, I determined to give it a trial. In a work on the Diseases of the Testis, which appeared a few weeks after¬ wards, I stated the object of this method of treatment to be, —“ the maintenance, whilst the patient is in the upright posi¬ tion, of such a degree of pressure on the spermatic veins as may be sufficient to relieve them from the superincumbent weight of the blood, without at the same time endangering the integrity of the testis, by obstructing the spermatic ar¬ tery, and without causing so much uneasiness as to render the remedy as painful as, or more difficult to be borne than, the disease. This pressure must be continued a sufficient, time, to enable the coats of the vessels to return to their natural dimensions, and to acquire strength to carry on the s 2