A review of Mr. Everard Home's Practical observations on the diseases of the prostate gland, and of his important anatomical discovery / by Jessé Foot.
- Jesse Foot
- Date:
- 1812
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A review of Mr. Everard Home's Practical observations on the diseases of the prostate gland, and of his important anatomical discovery / by Jessé Foot. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
14/42 page 12
![and ascertain whether there is any part sufficiently detached, to move independent of the rest of the Gland, [mark this], and to explain the appear- ances that had been met with in this particular case ? This looks as if he was determined to find his- middle Lobe before he looked for it, or how could he have dreamt of a part sufficiently de- tached, and yet belonging to the Prostate. And has he not told us in p. 10, that a similar exami- nation as to the identity of this Gland, or this middle Lobe, was made on this part in five different subjects ? That the appearances were not exactly the same in any two of them ? That in one, there was no apparent Glandular Lobe, or substance, but a mass of condensed cellular membrane ? And that in another there was a I Lobe [not a middle Lobe] blended laterally with the sides of the Prostate ? So that it appears that he has not as yet at least settled his establishment of this middle Lobe, according to his own shewing, and that he found out but one middle Lobe among six subjects that were examined, having sound Prostates. Then, granting the truth of Mr. Everard Home’s theory, that he cannot trace this middle Lobe positively after it is gone into the utmost progress of disease, so that it is lost in the mass of dis- ease, and that he has for that reason resorted to the examination of sound subjects in those parts, in order to trace the cause he is in search of, and finding](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22391186_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
