Thromboembolism

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Abstract
THE brilliant contributions to the therapy of thromboembolism with venous interruption by Homans, Allen and their co-workers in Boston, with heparin by Jorpes and Bauer in Sweden, and with Dicumarol by Allen and Barker at the Mayo Clinic and Evans and Dee of the Lahey Clinic pose a practical problem in the selection and application of these methods that the community surgeon must resolve for himself. Prior to these definitive measures many so-called mechanical methods were used in the hope of reducing the incidence of this complication of surgery.The present report outlines personal observations on the application of preventive . . .