Practical observations on the treatment of the diseases of the prostate gland : illustrated by copper plates / by Everard Home.

  • Everard Home
Date:
1811
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Practical observations on the treatment of the diseases of the prostate gland : illustrated by copper plates / by Everard Home. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

    50/408 (page 32)
    [ 5»] membrane of the urethra, over which it passes, appears at times to be excoriated by it. The urine in which it is contained is very offensive to the smell, and readily goes into putrefaction. As this state of the secretion is met with in those cases of the enlargement of the gland in consequence of strictures, in which the body and lateral lobes only are affected, it may be concluded, that the enlargement of the middle lobe is no fur- ther concerned in increasing this symptom, than as it produces the straining, and by that means keeps up a great degree of dist- urbance in every part of the gland,