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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    C8] has not been the case. The bridle had evidently been formed by the membrane of the bladder adhering firmly to that part of the prostate gland composing the tumor, which it consequently followed in its future increase, and drew up after it the mem- brane of the urethra. In this way the fold had in time become nearly a quarter of an inch broad, and was continued of the same breadth to the bulb, where the lining of the urethra being more attached to the surrounding parts, it did not admit of being drawn up. ; This appearance of a bridle is more or less met with in all the cases, in which the nipple-formed process occurs, but in a much smaller degree, and does not ex- tend further forwards than the verumon- tanum. To satisfy myself how this tumor was . formed, it became necessary to examine the prostate gland in its natural state; and ascertain whether there is any. part suffi- ciently detached to move independent of