Researches and observations on scrofulous disease of the external lymphatic glands : With cases, showing its connection with pulmonary consumption and other diseases / By Thomas Balman.

  • Balman, Thomas.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Researches and observations on scrofulous disease of the external lymphatic glands : With cases, showing its connection with pulmonary consumption and other diseases / By Thomas Balman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    verse manner at the base and inferior half: at the fundus and superior part of the bladder these folds had the usual reticulated appearance. The left lobe of the prostate was larger, and more rounded and prominent than the right; its base or vesical extremity, about the circumference of a half-crown piece, was flattened, and projected slightly into the bladder; the middle or third lobe was of a pyra- midal form, with its base projecting more into the bladder than the left lobe, to which it was attached by a conti- nuous circular rim or edge; its texture was much softer than the other lobes. The right division of the gland was much smaller than the left, and did not project into the bladder ; between it and the third lobe was the normal vesical opening of the urethra, deviating a little to the right side, but amply large to allow of the free escape of urine. The whole internal surface of the bladdei', repre- sented by the folds before alluded to, was completely studded with calcareous matter, presenting very much the appearance as if a handful of sea-sand had been lightly sprinkled upon it; the projecting extremities of the left, and more particularly the middle lobe, exhibited pre- cisely the same appearance, caused evidently by the pressure of the walls of the bladder directly upon these parts of the gland during each act of micturition. A section of the prostate presented nothing unusual in its structure, nor was there any appearance of ulceration ;