VARICOSE VEINS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 272, 17 November 1941, Page 6

VARICOSE VEINS

"iour learned medical correspondent may be right if he refers to the more fortunate section of the community who can rest their legs if they feel tired. Try being a shop assistant until marriage, then to bear seven children, to wash and iron in the one dav as it was the custom—to work _to the limit of endurance, pumping all water, lifting it into and out of tubs, no conveniences, no wringer even—then to be told that 2. a child and to work caused the varicose. The remedv obviouslv was not to carry a child'and not to work—so simple nowadavs. isn't it! Two good doctors insisted that injections were quite safe and satisfactory provided an exoerienced doctor used the needle. No learners watched the operation, by the way. 1 will let you know later on the result. MOTHER OF SEVEN".