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

  • Everard Home
Date:
1811
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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.

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    [ 4° ] size to pass out at the orifice of the bladder, therefore all those which drop from the ure- ters, will be retained in the cavity of the bladder, in many instances aggravating the symptoms of the disease, and producing a complication, which is not suspected. On the other hand, when the stone is the first formed disease, the enlargement of the middle lobe of the prostate gland, not unfrequently produces a cure of its symp- toms by preventing it from coming in con- tact with the neck of the bladder. This, however, is only an accidental in- terference of two distinct diseases with each other; but in some instances, the affection of the prostate gland becomes the actual cause of the formation of a calculus. The bladder never being completely emptied, the dregs of the urine, if I may be allowed the expression, being never evacuated, a calculus, formed on a nucleus of the ammo- niaco-magnesian phosphate and mucus, is produced, when it would not have been produced under other circumstance.