RT Journal
A1 Tamisiea JA
T1 MEthod of removing varicose veins
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD August 16
VO 73
IS 7
SP 497
OP 497
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.26120330001010
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.26120330001010
AB Varicose veins are the cause of the heaviest loss of A 1 men that we encounter in the army. I was attached to the British Expeditionary Forces and was stationed in their Base Hospital No. 25 at Hardelot, France. It was at this hospital that all the "clean" surgery for the Boulogne area was done. In the beginning of the war a soldier who would report sick with varicose veins was usually sent to the base and later transferred to England for operation. As we all know, those poor men had gone through the worst of the war and were eager to keep out of all that they could in the future. It therefore became the duties of the medical officers to find a way to shorten every man's stay in the hospital.These varicose vein cases were the first that any material speed was shown on. We devised a wire,