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ma, keloid, lipoma, papilloma and cystoma. On the 

 other hand, affections of the veins, hemorrhoid-, vari- 

 cocele and varicose veins of the lower extremities, are 

 not nearly as frequent as with us. Among the thousands 

 of barelegged men I saw in India I did not observe a 

 single instance of well-marked varicosity and, consid- 



Fig. 4t. — An undiagnosed case. By courtesy of Capt. Rogers, I'.M.S. 



ering the enormous clinical material that passes through 

 the large hospitals, the number of operations for hem- 

 orrhoids and varicocele is astonishingly small. Laxa- 

 tive vegetable diet, active exercises, absence of tendency 

 to obesity and looseness or absence of dress will go far 

 to explain the comparative freedom from ectatic dis- 

 ease of the hemorrhoidal, spermatic and saphenous 

 veins, a suggestion which might be of some service to 

 our numerous sufferers from plethora, obesity and stag- 

 nant venous circulation. 



