Practical observations on the treatment of the diseases of the prostate gland : illustrated by copper-plates : to which is added, a letter from Prof. Brande to the author, on calculi, from the Philosophical transactions / by Sir Everard Home.

  • Home, Everard, Sir, 1756-1832.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Practical observations on the treatment of the diseases of the prostate gland : illustrated by copper-plates : to which is added, a letter from Prof. Brande to the author, on calculi, from the Philosophical transactions / by Sir Everard Home. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    there was found in the centre, or nearly so, a rounded, soft, somewhat spherical, sub- stance, uniform in its texture which ap- proached nearer to that of pulp than fibres: this was surrounded towards the apex by concentric lines of a similar structure, giv- ing the appearance of having been formed after the nucleus, if I may use that term, as they were less compact and softer. On the left side it was found, that in making the section, a large artery had been laid open for a quarter of an inch in length, in which there was a coagulum of blood: on looking on the opposite side, the cor- responding vessel was so much smaller as to be with difficulty distinguished, and was empty. These two arteries were passing almost on the outside of the gland itself, being just within the external covering. It is also to be remarked, that it was on the left side of the middle lobe that there was so large a portion of newly deposited sub- stance.