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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![vantes> if thou hadst but been composing thy work whilst these transactions were passing, and hadst but compared these performances, how ad- mirably wjuldst thou have painted the motive which the obscurity of our poor nature denies us the power to unravel! But there is one fact avowed, and which opens a little the door for suspicion of ill-natured critics, and which is in p. 1^7, treating “ on a cure of a complication of cases.” If Mr. Everard Home could cure those cases without Caustic, he never wanted Caustic for the cure of any. If Caustic be not applied for the cure of Strictures in the Urethra, we do not hesi- tate to pronouHce, that its application to the Ure- thra for any other purpose is bad. Here is to be seen in this Third Volume a most wonderful change in the system of curing Strictures, by the identical personage who had published two volumes in eulogistic praise of the advantages of an universal application of Caustic. P. 127. The Bougie [without Caustic] must only be passed a little way through the Stricture, and never allowed to come to the Verumontanum. It must never be allowed to remain for any length of time in the Urethra, and had better be intro- duced only once a day. By these gentle means the Stricture will be found to dilate more readily than by any other means that I am acquainted with.” T'lere’](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22391186_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
