Copy 1, Volume 1

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

  • Everard Home
Date:
1811-1818
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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.

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    to the present investigation, it may be ne- cessary to mention that the prostate gland i$ liable, in the latter period of life, to en- large: and when it does so, there is fre- quently a nipple-like projection, which rises up and forms tumors of very different sizes, projecting into the cavity of the bladder. These tumors, as they obstruct the passage of the urine, have attracted the attention of all anatomical surgeons, from the time of Morgagni to the present day. Their ap- pearance has been described, and specimens of them in different degrees of enlarge- ment are preserved in many collections of morbid parts. The attention of surgeons has been naturally called to what is of the greatest consideration, the appearances they put on, and the symptoms they produce: but the particular circumstances in the na- tural conformation of the gland, which dis- pose it to form these tumors, have never been ascertained. Morgagni says, “ These * caruncles were found to grow out in the “very middle of the upper ‘and internal Ba
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