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.
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![it appears that it is not every subject, according to his demonstrations and his theory, who can be liable to that protrusion on the Bladder which is found to be so fatal from the enlargement of his middle Lobe; nor can it possibly happen, but to those who are born with this seed of de- struction— with this Gland, or this middle Lobe. But howsoever strong that consolation may be, yet the truth will not admit of such a conclusion; it is as false, and something similar in all other respects to that prediction which the Weird Sisters offered to Macbeth. “ Ficta omnia celeriter, tanquam Flosculi, decidunt, nec simulatum potest quidquam esse diuturnum.” Tully. All false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground, nor can any counterfeit last long. When he treats on the effects produced on the secretion of the Gland, Mr. Everard Home as- sumes a new character. Having established the qualities and the situation of his middle Lobe, he proceeds: P. 30. “ When the middle Lobe is enlarged, it is difficult to say whether the circumstance has any particular effect upon the secretion of tlie Gland, for the body and lateral Lobes are also enlarged, [mark this] and from their size must have the principal concern in every thing con- nected with that secretion. Under these circum- stances, the secretion is rendered extremely vis- cid,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22391186_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
