No appearance of recent disease existed, and the density and firmness of the morbid textures evidently shewed that the whole was the result of inflammation which had occurred at a remote period.
The Sketch[1] copied from a very accurate drawing, taken immediately after the removal of the vessels from the body, will convey a clearer idea of their morbid state than any verbal description. The vein is laid open on the back part, and bristles are passed under the adventitious membrane lining its interior and closing up the mouths of all the anastomosing branches.
The patient whose case I have now related was under the immediate care of my friend Mr. Grant, of Thayer-street, Manchester-square, and to him I am indebted for the history of the disease during its early stages.
Case II.—Mrs. P———, æt. 27, of a delicate constitution, had been affected, during the last two months of pregnancy, with œdema of the right inferior extremity, a varicose state of the veins, and pain in the inside of the thigh and groin. In the latter situation it had been at times so severe as to prevent her retaining the limb long either in the bent or straight position.
- ↑ See Plate 11.
