EXPLANATION OF PLATE VIII.

FIBROUS TUMOURS OF THE PROSTATE.

Enlargement of prostate from fibrous tumours; bladder diseased and sacculated. (From Case No. III., pp. 121-2.)

Fig. 1 represents a section through anterior part of bladder and prostate. The enlargement of the prostate is seen obstructing the vesical neck and projecting into the cavity of the bladder. A indicates a rounded eminence occupied by one of the tumours, which is dissected out in fig. 2, and denoted there by the same letter.

Fig. 2. Some of the prostatic tumours are dissected out (A and a). Others are divided by transverse section; one is well seen, marked a at the lower corner of the figure, near to the word " left."

Referred to at pages 83 and 121.