A Clinical Lecture ON A FURTHER SERIES OF CASES OF TOTAL EXTIRPATION OF THE PROSTATE FOR RADICAL CURE OF ENLARGEMENT OF THAT ORGAN: Delivered at the Medical Graduates' College and Polyclinic, January 15th, 1902

Abstract

bladder, each the size of half a cricket-ball, with a deep vertical cleft between them, throdgh which the "Iwll'ttt'tsal 'ftrturit catheter was felt passing into the bladder.A small ON A FURTHER SERIES OF CASES OF phosphatic concretion, lying free in the bladder, was removed.The mucous memrane over the most prominent TOTAL EXTIRPATION OF rTHE PROSTATE FOR part of the right lobe was then snipped by scissors, the inei- RADICAL CURE OF ENLARGEMENT OF sion enlarged by the flinger nail, and that portion of the ]RADICAL CRE OF'EiNL GEMENT OF lobe (Fig. x, A'B') easily and rapidly detached from its; THIAT ORGAN.mueous covering, wh1ehcwas pushed down off it.The pro-.minent portion of the left' lobe (Fig. I,AB) was similarly Delivered at the Medical Graduates' College a4td Polyctinic; dealt with, the whole 'mass8 (A&' BB') then lying bare of January 15th, 1902.mucous membrane.Each half of this mass was then for By P. J. FREYER, M.A., M.D., M.CH., convenience broken off by the finger along the line BB'), flush with the floor of the bladder, and withdrawn by Surgeon to St. Peter's