Diseases of the Veins: More Especilly of Venosity, Varicocele, Hemmorrhoids & Varicose Veins & their Homoeopathic Treatment - Tapa blanda

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: under the prolonged use of Acidum fluoricum, that a long-worn wig could be put off. This was observed by me while house-surgeon at the Hardman Street Homoeopathic Dispensary in Liverpool; and it was there, too, that I first had an opportunity of testing this remarkably bold assertion of Dr Hughes, namely, that varicose veins would shrink to half their size under the influence of fluoric acid. THE LAMP-LIGHTER S CASE OF EXCESSIVE VARICOSITY OF THE LEFT INTERNAL SAPHENOUS VEIN. A middle-aged man, by occupation a lamp-lighter, came under observation at the Dispensary foran enormously dilated vein of the left thigh. At its highest and largest end, just where it dips down to the femoral vein through the sa- phenous opening of hafascia lata, it was as large as a child's wrist; and near the knee, about the size of a man's little finger, so that there was no inconsiderable danger of its rupturing and causing dangerous haemorrhage. It was not the local expression of general varicosis, but arose from a mechanical obstruction in this wise: Patient had sowed his wild oats lang syne, and as part of the harvest had reaped a big bubo in the left groin. This had sloughed, and been burned with a strong acid, and there resulted as scar, a cicatricial surface of the size of a man's palm, and this scar-tissue in contracting had very much narrowed the entrance of the long saphenous vein, through the opening of the fascia lata into the deeper- lying crural vein. Then, in those days, lamp-lighters used to do their work with the aid of light ladders, and were in the habit of sliding down them scores of times a day, and thus the vein, that had become dilated from the lateral pressure of the venous blood, coursing up the saphena, having such a contracted entrance, became still more dist...