[Clinical and experimental white atrophy].

The author was, in 1952, the first to draw attention to the possibilities of revascularization of white atrophy. The data which he produced in 1952 have remained correct. Time has amply confirmed them and so, using these data, the author studies the nature of revascularization; he underlines the very important idea following the experiments carried out by Boersma, of rhythmical jarring in the return venous circulation, both superficial and deep, and shows how it is possible to counteract the ill-effects of these veritable battering-ram shocks by means of ambulatory compression perfectly applied. The more the compression offers resistance to the jarring during walking, the more limited the risk of relapse will be. A patient who carefully follows the prescribed treatment has a good chance that the development of the disease will not be crowned by relapse.