Quotation from: Manual of Surgery

Written by: Alexander Miles and Alexis Thomson


_Treatment._--Attention must be directed towards the condition with
which the phlebitis is associated. Ligation of the vein on the cardiac
side of the thrombus with a view to preventing embolism is seldom
feasible in the peripheral veins, although, as will be pointed out
later, the jugular vein is ligated with this object in cases of
phlebitis of the transverse sinus.



VARIX--VARICOSE VEINS

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