On varicocele treated by compression, with the description of a new instrument for accomplishing this method of cure / by Lawrence Ramsay Thomson, M.D.

  • Thomson, Lawrence Ramsay.
Date:
1848
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Credit: On varicocele treated by compression, with the description of a new instrument for accomplishing this method of cure / by Lawrence Ramsay Thomson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    an extent as to interfere with their usefuhiess as soldiers would be rejected, and that, therefore, many slight cases of cii'socele may have been admitted. As a reason for submitting slight cases to the treatment I have explained, may be here stated the great tendency such have to hicrease. The disproportion between the number of cases on the right and left sides is well seen in the Edinburgh and Glasgow returns. ^^Ii- Marshall says, Cirsocele seldom occurs except on the left side. I do not recollect having ever seen a well-marked case of it on the right side, although I have examined nearly 30,000 recruits.— (Marshall On the Enlisting, <^c., of Soldiers. 1839. P. 32.) The case I have given is interesting, in that it details a well-marked case on the right side. And the special claims of the above communi- cation to notice, consist in its pointing out a source of fallacy in the ordinary mode of diagnosis between hernia and this affection, and in its giving the description of a more efficient txniss than has yet been used for the cure of varicocele. Note.—A good specimen of the truss (Fig. 3), I find, has not been sent to the artist. The pad has been made larger, and the encircling spring broader, than there is any occasion for ; besides, the neck of the pad has not been so constructed as to admit of elongation. Notwitlistanding these defects, the drawing vnll convey a cor- rect idea of the appearance and mode of acting of the instrument.
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