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.

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    in a healthy state, is small, nor does it appear to be liable to become enlarged even when the body and the lateral Lobes have been considerably in- creased in size.” So that it appears that the middle Lobe re- mains for ever small, whilst the lateral Lobes and Body are growing. It appears that a part of a same substance retains its dwarfish state whilst other parts are growing ! /This is a Discovery ! it deserves a day of jubilee ! Mr. Everard Home now proceeds, and drops into a tone of moralizing, that the Prostate Gland in advanced life is more subject to be affected by disease [this is not newj than most other parts of the body [this is new]. P. 18. “ From its frequent occurrence, per- haps Ave may be justified in believing that it is alluded to in the beautiful description of the na- tural decay of the body in the Bible, in the Book of Ecclesiastes, the 12th chapter, the 6th verse, where it is written, ‘ or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,’ expressive of the two principal effects of this disease, the involuntary passing of the urine, and the total stoppage.” Doctor Mead “ On Old Age” has said this al- ready, in p bop, 4to edition ; he has admirably paraphrased the whole of the passage. If Mr. Everard Home means by this partial piece of stealth to establish the predominant oc- currence