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
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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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![had some claim upon vanity, because he had merit, a great deal more than what can be boasted of by Mr. Everard Home. For what he has done through the flexible elastic gum catheter, ME Everard Home’s candour wdll not in this instance permit him to dispute the palm. Daran gave at- tributes to his own bougie, and although Mr. Sharpe has in his Critical Enquiry been severe upon him for attempting to attribute improbable and impossible qualities to his bougie, and of which he might be easily convicted, yet we are naturally disposed to pardon his arrogance, his falsehoods, and impositions, on account of the valuable improvement he has bequeathed to the art by his invention of the bougie, now in use. As a specimen of Mr. Everard Home’s tone and manner, we will give what he says in p. 77. “ For these last ten years I have had a large supply of catheters carefully formed into a proper curve, and with them have been able to draw off the water in cases in which other surgeons who did not possess them have necessarily failed.” Mr. Everard Home, having thus capered and vaunted at some length, condescends at last to set us down to the following tame paragraph. P. 90. “ If the catheter without the stilet can- not in this way be made to pass, it must be tried with a stilet; and if it is still prevented from aa. ing further than before, a finger introduced into the rectum, and ];assing upon the curved part of' ^ the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22391186_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
