The Late Results of Femoral Thrombophlebitis and Their Treatment

THERE is probably an advantage, in these recent days when thrombosis in the veins of the lower limbs is receiving active treatment by surgical procedures as well as by anticoagulants, in visualizing the usual end stage of the disease untouched by such methods. It is as yet too soon to learn how much or how little they alter its natural course, even supposing that in any considerable proportion of cases their use is attempted, for when one considers that venous thromboses occur in association with injuries, operations, childbirth and serious cardiac and other diseases, as well as spontaneously in everyday . . .