Ditto left lateral lobe only do. Ditto left lateral and middle lobes only enlarged generally hypertrophy— abscess. ditto tumours present, PART II. THE DISEASES OF THE PROSTATE. THE diseased conditions to which the prostate is liable will be considered in the order presented below. All the deviations from health are enumerated which an extended study of morbid anatomy, as well as that of the signs and symptoms manifested during life, indicate as liable to affect the organ. Inflammation of the Prostate: Prostatitis. CHAPTER III. INFLAMMATION OF THE PROSTATE: ACUTE AND CHRONIC. Acute Prostatitis.-Causes.-Morbid Anatomy.-Symptoms.-Treatment.- Chronic Prostatitis. Causes.-Morbid Anatomy.-Symptoms.-Treatment, in its various Forms and Stages. ACUTE INFLAMMATION OF THE PROSTATE. This is by no means a common affection, if regarded as distinct and unassociated with inflammation of the urethra or bladder. When the latter organ is inflamed, the prostate appears sometimes to suffer, although in a secondary manner and degree. But in obedience to the common law which seems to apply to tracts of mucous membrane generally, inflammation appears commonly to travel from the external to the deeper parts. Accordingly, an attack of urethritis, involving the external inch or two of the urethra, may spread inwards and fix itself, as I believe is not unfrequently the case, upon that portion of the canal which is most largely surrounded by vascular tissue, viz., the bulbous portion. Hence, probably, the origin of stricture-formation affecting that locality especially. But it may proceed, as an exceptional occurrence, more deeply still, and then the prostate becomes the subject of inflammatory action. Such is the most common mode by which this organ is involved. It may not be out of place to observe, that in the respiratory tract the same line of march from the external to the internal parts is observed. A catarrh, for example, is the first sign of inflammation in the mucous membrane of this region; the action may gradually spread to the throat, larynx, bronchi, and so on to the lung-substance itself. The converse order of things we do not observe; and after the same manner also in the genito-urinary tract, we find that inflammation is to be |