Compression sclerotherapy of varicose veins.

Abstract

Propriety of exotic treatments SIR,-Not infrequently in the press there are reports about parents, friends, and volunteers collecting money to send patients abroad to receive medical treatments not practised in Britain, but which are claimed to be beneficial by those who offer them. For the sake of patients, their relatives, and doctors it is time that some responsible medical body investigated some of these treatments and the methods of their operators. Recently, for example, the parents of a