In most cases the symptoms are slight, and not worth mentioning, and were it not for quack pamphlets would rarely be noticed. When a varicose condition of the veins is present, the scrotum or bag is enlarged, the swelling taking place between the testicle or stone and the bottom of the body. On feeling with the fingers an idea is produced that there is a bag of soft worms at this spot. The generality of persons suffer more or less from slight varicocele, but unless the scrotum becomes the size of a small Seville orange, or larger, no notice should be taken of it. The symptoms most frequently observed are a feeling of weight in the testicle, a dull aching pain, and a dragging sensation which runs along the groin into the abdomen and to the small of the back. These symptoms are often experienced after a long walk, after standing all day, or after exercise of the legs all day as in using a treadle lathe, etc. If very bad it may cause a feeling of lassitude, weariness, and sickness. Excessive varicocele may cause wasting of the testicles and thus act as a bar to marriage.