A probationary essay on varix : and the treatment by compression as recommended by Velpeau : submitted by authority of the President and his Council, to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, when candidate for admission into their body, in conformity with the regulations respecting the admission of ordinary Fellows.

  • Dunsmure, James.
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1841
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    after this operation had been performed, but in Vel- peau's experience, which, at the time I had an oppor- tunity of seeing him, amounted to more than 100 cases of varix, varicocele, and cirsocele, in which this treatment had been followed, no alarming symptoms ensued, with the exception of the case already men- tioned, in which the internal saphena of the thigh had been transfixed. It is doubtless true that troublesome conse- quences may occasionally follow, as is seen from time to time in the slightest operation of surgery, but from what has been mentioned, they must be of such rare occurrence, as hardly to deter any surgeon from having recourse freely to this operation. I have practised it repeatedly myself, and as yet with- out having seen any bad result. Varicocele and Cirsocele.—In these, Velpeau's operation is the one most likely to be attended by success. The needle ought not, in the latter disease, more especially if it exists on both sides of the cord, to be pushed under all the veins, as if we do, we run some risk of tying the vas defer- ens or the spermatic arteries. If either of these vessels is included, we are sure to destroy the function of the testicle. The spermatic artery lies at the back part of the cord, and the vas deferens