Varicose veins : their nature, consequences and treatment, palliative and curative / by Henry T. Chapman.

  • Chapman, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1806-1874.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Varicose veins : their nature, consequences and treatment, palliative and curative / by Henry T. Chapman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dilatation. In Hasse’s work, however, these admissions are only to be found under the head of “ Chronic Phlebitis no allusion to this malady occurring in the chapter treat- ing of the “ Causes of Varix.” Rokitansky, it is true, does include inflammation of the vein in his catalogue of the causes of phle- bectasis ; but he mentions it, quite incident- ally, as a possible source of the disease. The intimate connexion, therefore, which so pal- pably exists between dilatation and inflam- mation of the venous walls, is scarcely announced by either of these eminent authorities in such terms as would attract attention to it practically. Again I repeat the hope,—expressed when bringing the curative treatment of varix under the notice of the readers of the Medical Times and Gazette^—that the practice I have described may be tested on a larger scale, and by judges less inter- ested than myself; feeling confident that all who give it a fair trial mil arrive at the same conclusion with regard to its efiicacy in the class of cases pointed out. And if I