Remarks on cancer of the prostate and the selection of cases for suprapubic prostatectomy : delivered at the Medical Graduates' College and Polyclinic, June 3, 1903 / by Reginald Harrison.

  • Harrison, Reginald, 1837-1908.
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1903
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Credit: Remarks on cancer of the prostate and the selection of cases for suprapubic prostatectomy : delivered at the Medical Graduates' College and Polyclinic, June 3, 1903 / by Reginald Harrison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    iRemat'fis on Cancer of the Prostate and the Selection of Cases for Suprapubic Prostatectomy. Delivered at the Medical Graduates' College and Polyclinic, June 3, 1903. By REGINALD HARRISON, F.R.C.S. Hunterian Professor of Pathology and Surgery (1890-91), and Vice- President Royal College of Surgeons; Surgeon to St. Peter's Hospital, London. I propose offering you a few remarks on the subject of prostatectomy, and will commence by introducing a case which may be regarded as a typical one. I showed this patient at the Polyclinic a short time after the opera- tion. Sixteen months have now elapsed, during which period he has been actively employed earning his living. Thus you may judge as to the permanent results which we may hope to obtain in well-selected cases after this operation. The patient at the time of operation was 67 years of age. He has been under my notice since 1899, when I performed vasectomy for him for enlargement of the prostate. At this time the enlargement had made con- siderable advance, he was entirely dependent on the catheter, and had been so for some time, and this greatly interfered with his work as a compositor and seriously injured his health by preventing him obtaining sufficient continuous sleep and rest. The case proved too far advanced for vasectomy, and the relief he obtained from this operation was insufficient. On February 5, 1902, after examining his prostate and bladder with the cystoscope, I performed supra-