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Title: A non-surgical treatise on diseases of the prostate gland and adnexa
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Overall, George Whitfield
Subjects: Prostate
Publisher: Chicago) Rowe Publishing co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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m fifty-five up toseventy, but that it rarely develops after seventy. Dr.Keys places the time of its usual appearance after fifty.It must not be inferred, however, that in all men pastfifty-five, who suffer with prostatic disease, it is senilehypertrophy; but on the contrary, more men suffer fromcongested enlargement, during that period of life, thanfrom a hypertrophic induration of the gland. While this disease is characteristic of old age, yet excep-tional cases occur at a much earlier period of life. It isquite common among physicians to accredit all forms ofdiseases of the prostate to hypertrophy and place the timeof its occurrence anywhere from twenty-one up. In factmany chronic urethral diseases that have proven rebelliousto the ordinary methods of treatment have been pro-nounced hypertrophy. It might be likened to Fothergillsinterpretation of rheumatism, which, as he states, in-cludes the lightning pains of locomotor ataxia to theboring sensations of syphilitic ostitis. 114 115
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XVIII. Fix. XVIII. illustrates a condition of true hypertrophyof the prostate, showing extensive growth of the thirdlobe, which so encroaches upon the neck of the bladder asto occlude the flow of urine. It also shows an extensionof inflammation to the bladder, vesicles and rectum. 116 PROSTATE GLAND AND ADNEXA. Clinical experience has demonstrated that the largemajority of men troubled with prostatitis even past fiftydo not suffer from hypertrophy of the gland, but of con-gested enlargement. I have treated and cured many mensuffering from the latter, that had been treated for senilehypertrophy and pronounced incurable. Such errors havenot been confined to the general practitioner, but manyhad been treated by some of the leading genito-urinaryspecialists CAUSES. The etiology of the disease has never been definitelydetermined. Several of the French writers have consid-ered it analogous to the atheromatous condition of bloodvessels, heart and other structures of the body, due to oldage,

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