The prostate gland and its enlargement in old age

Preface

The following monograph is principally founded upon my inaugural dissertation on Graduation, to which a gold medal was awarded by the University of Edinburgh in the year 1855.

I have endeavoured to lay before the reader in some detail an account of the healthy anatomy of the prostate, and the morbid changes which it undergoes in old age.

The illustrations have been carefully selected from a considerable number of specimens, and will, I trust, contribute materially to the elucidation of the subject, especially as regards the surgical treatment of the disease.

Dr. Allen Thomson has assisted me with several valuable suggestions, bearing upon the publication of the work and its illustration.

I have to thank the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and the Council of King's College, London, for permission to make use of the preparations in their Collections.

Mr. Goodsir kindly placed at my disposal the preparation from which Plate 11 has been made ; and I am indebted to Mr. Robert B rown, of the Cumberland Infirmary, for the specimen delineated in Plate 12.

Univbksitt op Glasgow, Nov., 1856.

Contents

iNTBODnCTION, ......

PAQE

Lateral dissection of the pelvis to show the relations of the prostate