The diseases of the prostate, their pathology and treatment : comprising the Jacksonian prize essay for the year 1860

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THE

DISEASES OF THE PEOSTATE

Preface

Prostate aud those of the Uterus; — discussed in the second chapter (fifth of Second edition).

An examination of the alleged causes of enlargement of the Prostate, resulting in new views of this subject ; — in the third chapter (seventh of Second edition).

The effects of enlarged Prostate in relation to the function of micturition ; — considered in the fifth chapter (ninth of Second edition) .

The researches in relation to Malignant and Tubercular disease of the Prostate ; — in the ninth and tenth chapters (fourteenth and fifteenth of Second edition) .

The consideration of " the bar at the neck of the bladder;'^ — in chapter the twelfth (seventeenth of Second edition).

Besides these, I have treated at length the subject of Diagnosis and Treatment of enlargement, and of the various complications which arise in connection with it, perhaps, I may venture to say, more fully than any preceding author.

And lastly, I have devoted a long chapter to a consideration of that important, but not uncommon complication of enlarged Prostate, stone in the bladder ; and especially of the best modes of successfully applying Lithotrity as a means for its removal. I venture to hope that in discussing thus fully the question of Treatment, whether in relation to the simple or the complicated forms of this common complaint, some hints will be found which may prove useful in the varied emergencies of practice. I shall feel abundantly rewarded should some of my professional brethren discover any such fruit as the result of my labours.

AVimpole Street, Cavendish Square, London, Nov. 1867.

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PEEFACE

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FOUETH EDITION.

In preparing a new edition of this work^ I have found it necessary to make several additions. At the same time I have compressed the existing material, so much as to reduce somewhat the size of the volume, and at the same time, as I hope, to increase its utility.

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