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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    At length, after having thus searched, and thus defined this Gland, when it could be found, to be similar to Cowper’s Glands ; and after having also defined it to be a Lobe, Mr. Everard Home made it his adoption by calling it hereafter a Lobe, the Middle Lobe of the Prostate Gland; and that the Prostate Gland to which it is so connected that dissection cannot separate it, should have an allotment in this discovery, he has set his baptismal nomenclature to work. The right and left portions of the Prostate Gland are to be called the Right and Left Lobes, and this diminutive Stranger, the Middle Lobe, that is when it can be found. Having established his Discovery as a Fact, for Mr. Everard Home calls it, “ This newly acquired anatomical fact,” Being provided against the doubts that may arise from the inquiry of any future anatomical inspector, by a declaration that in all cases this Gland as he once called it, or this middle Lobe that he now calls it, is not [hqwever] sometimes to be seen, and concluding with the determi- nation of defining the Prostate Gland to be what he calls Lobular, and this, his Discovery, the Middle Lobe annexed to it, Mr, Everard Home then proceeds as follows : P. 17. Section I, “ This Lobe in the earlier periods of life, when the body of the Gland is in