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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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my treatment. He afterwards becamestrong and healthy, and lived eight years. I never sawhim during his last illness. His death was reported asdue to nephritis, though no autojosy was made. TBEATMENT. The treatment of chronic congested enlargement of theprostate gland is somewhat similar to that described inthe former chapter on prostatitis. One must take intoconsideration the age and health of the patient, the degreeof discomfort to which he is subject, the extent of com-plications, tenderness or inflammation of the gland itself,urethra or rectum, and the urgency or necessity for therelief of any conditions from impending danger to life. There are only two ways by which we can reach theprostate for direct treatment, viz., through the urethra orrectum; and as these organs are so closely related to theprostate, both by contiguity and continuity of structure,and are in such close sympathetic relation with it, theyare generally pathologically involved. They therefore SEMINAL VESICLES. 93
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Fig. XV. 94 PROSTATE GLAND AND ADNBXA. require treatment in order that tlie prostate may bereached without causing pain or inflammation to thesechannels, for the inflammation is liable to extend and in-crease the already existing trouble of the gland. So myfirst step is to give relief to all symptoms of an urgent ordangerous nature; then allay, in so far as possible, allinflammation of the urethra and rectum, by rendering thepassage of urine and fecal matter over these tender, andprobably abraded surfaces, as non-irritating as possible. Diet.—In ordinary cases I rarely restrict my patientsin their diet, except in regard to particularly indigestiblefood, such as cabbage, pork, cucumbers and the like. Ido prohibit alcoholic liquors while the patient is undertreatment, and especially fermented ale, beer or wine, asthey directly tend to disturb the circulation, liver andkidneys, causing an excessive precipitation of uric acid,and biliary discharges, and increasing local irritation tothe

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