A case of diseased prostate, bladder, and rectum, successfully treated / by Jessé Foot.

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826.
Date:
1814
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Credit: A case of diseased prostate, bladder, and rectum, successfully treated / by Jessé Foot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    CASE, &c. In October, 1813, a person came to me from Bromley in Kent, to have my advice on his com- plaints ; and, as he had already taken up his abode at a friend's in Bedford-square, for that in- tent, we devoted this first visit to a conversation on the nature of his symptoms, the time they had been on him, the remedies which had been used, the medical gentlemen under whose care he had been, and on the whole of that information which can be better collected from a patient him- self, than from any body else. He was at the advanced age of sixty, of an un- common calmness of disposition for one so terri- .bly afflicted and so very much emaciated. He was a married man, of very sober and regular habits, had been first attacked a year and a half ago with a disorder in his bowels, for which he had from the beginning consulted an eminent physician of the Borough hospitals, and whose prescriptions he brought with him. He had also consulted a surgeon of St. George's hospital, and a surgeon of the Borough hospitals, some time before he applied to me. Doubts having arisen that the disease was a Prostate case, which was the opinion of the sur- geon of St. George's hospital, he consulted the surgeon of the Borough hospitals, who sounded his bladder in search of stone; but none being found,