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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    cation to lateral dilatation,—“ la varice proprement cUte, on la dilatation laterale,” are his words. A few paragi’aphs in advance, he states broadly:— “ When the dilatation takes place uniformly in the entire ch’ciunfei’ence of the vessel, the blood ch’culates freely—there is no varix. There is this gi’eat difference, therefore, between dilatation and varix, that in the one there is integrity, in the other there is alteration of the venous walls ; that in the one the vessel fulfils all its functions rela- tively to the ch’culation, in the other the blood no longer circulates, there is disease.” * Li his second article on the same malady, f in contradiction of his former definition, he divides varix into—first, simple uniform dilatation, with or wfithout elongation ; and, second, cellidar (or late- ral) varix. Without attempting formally to define varix, M. Anch’al$ describes it as existing mth three different conditions of the venous walls:—the first, in which they are in a normal state; the second, in wliich they have become thickened; the third, in which they are thinner than natm’al. And these three conditions he fuiTlier subdivides into six species, an enumeration of which would be foreign to my present object. * Anatomie Pathologique, Livraison xvi. f Livraison xxxv. t Prdcis d’Auat: Pathologique, T. ii., p. 400. B 2