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.

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826.
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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    One ingenious [not ingenuous] critic, whose nocturnal oil must have burnt contemporary with ours, has denominated this important anatomical stranger, this pitcher at the fountain, this wheel at the cistern, “ the Lobulus Everardi Homii/’ There is no objection to the name when the thing can be demonstrated. If another Astolpho were to make another voyage of discovery to the Moon in search of things lost on earth, he would possibly find the Lobulus Everardi Homii closely packed up with certain other immaterial little things, conserved perhaps in some of his nicely calculated urine, and all his Middle Lobe cases. Where Hero’s wits are kept in ponderous vases. And Beau’s in snutF-boxes and tweezer-cases. Rape of the Lock. Dean-street, Soho, March lOth, 1812. FINIS.