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

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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$knowing that it was the malignant Middle Lobe which did all the mischief, nor having a Flexible Catheter ten years old for use, could not act in surmounting this dreaded dilcmna, unless they supplicated his assistance. They might, it is true, adopt what he has recommended in “ p. 90,’^ and what we have before quoted; they might at last, like Mr. Everard Home, come to this: “ If the Catheter [young or old] without the stilet can- not in this way [his way] be made to pass, it must be tried with the stilet; and if it is still pre- vented from going further than before, a finger introduced into the rectum, and pressing upon the curved part of the Catheter, may give it a right direction, so as to guide it into the Bladder.” Finally, the motive could not be that his First and Second Volumes were intended for such as would brave the general application of Caustic, and the ^ Third Volume for old and timid patients, who, without kno\ying before, the force of the Middle Lobe, and charmed by the beauty of the old Ca- theter, obeyed the invitation so hopefully held out to them. Some of. these motives, surely, for the honor of the, profession, must not be suspected. But why did not Mr, Everard Home impart to his Readers one syllable upon such a serious and im- portant change in system? The systems ot the First and Second Volume were all in the extrava- gant praise of Caustic ; the system of the Third Volume is all for the Soothing Plan ! Oh, Cer- vantes,$