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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    to expect, that a stop may be more readily- put to its enlargement, and even a reduction in a greater or less degree brought about, than in tumors to which it bears a very close resemblance, although by no means of the same class of diseases. When the middle lobe has arrived at a great size, and has long continued so enlarged, the chance of reduction is at an end.