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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    C23 ] ever, preserve either their natural propor- tion, or indeed any regular one, to the middle lobe, in the progress of their en- largement, nor do they always keep pace with one another, the left in some instances becoming much larger than the right. The diseased state of the body of the pro- State gland, and of the lateral lobes, which I am at present describing, is very different from that which is met with in the earlier periods of life, in consequence of strictures in the urethra, a symptom which, when it comes on, frequently occasions great alarm to the patient as well as to the surgeon, from an apprehension that they have an incurable disease to contend.with. In very few patients under 50 years of age, have I found the middle lobe so much swelled as to produce retention of urine, or an inability to empty the bladder, although the rest of the gland has been much enlarged, so much so, that in one instance, when examined by the rectum, it was said to equal in size the half of an