Cases of diseased bladder and testicle / [William Wadd].

  • William Wadd
Date:
1815
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Credit: Cases of diseased bladder and testicle / [William Wadd]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    most practical purposes, till Sir Everard Home introduced, as an almost universal remedy, the caustic, which that great master had reserved for the most desperate cases. The application of a general remedy, implied an unifor- mity in the cause of the disease, and Sir Everard^ book consisted only of histories of cures, without due attention to that arrangement, which formed a new epoch, in the study of these complicated complaints. It ought, however, in justice to be remarked, that Sir Everard, in his later publication, appears to have lost much of his former par- tiality, for severe aud uncertain remedies. Mr. Hunter has also given us a perfect and plain description of the gradual enlargement of the prostate gland, in many subjects at an advanced period of life. It is not easy to conceive, what should have induced his rela- tion, pupil, and successor, to consider a diseased enlarge- ment as a natural formation—at a time when, as M. Con- dorcet remarks. Anatomy has arrived at its acme, “ when every thing which the eye of the observer, assisted by the microscope, has been able to discover, is already ascertained ” — could it be believed that a part should have been overlooked by all former anatomists in a gland so often and so minutely examined. If the high authority of his master, and I may add, almost the only master acknowledged in the present day, was insufficient, the candid report of his own pupil, might have convinced Sir Everard of his too hasty conclusion. Happily this
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