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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    •henceforth, especially as no one anatomist since nor before, past nor present, has asserted that the Prostate Gland is lobiilose, and that this middle part is a Lobe of it under any construction of partial attachment, especially as every day, since his avowal of this discovery six years ago in the Philosophical Transactions, a free opportunity has been given for the confirmation or the denial of his discovery, and especially as it is universally since denied that the Prostate is lobulose, it can- not be any thing more or less than a fiction. Mr. Everard Home has referred us to Morgagni, and with an air of triumph he exults that Mor- gagni had not forestalled him, in his newly-dis- covered ariatoinical fact. Few writers mention authors, to say that their works do not contain any thing to the purpose. But, if Hunter, Desault, and Morgagni, have not satisfied Mr. Everard Home’s curiosity, why did he not extend hig researches } we mean with respect to the history of disease of the Prostate, and of Cases; for as to the discovery of the Middle Lobe, we freely confess that to be all his own. But as he would not look out further for these, we have to inform him that the disease of the Prostate Gland, and iW relief by the catheter,^ have been well and truly de«^ fined for more than two hundred years. Disease of the Prostate also can be easily ascertained. There is no disease that can be more readily dis- tinguished, either from Stricture in the Urethra, or
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