TY  - JOUR
T1  - PRostatic hypertrophy.
AU  - GUITERAS R
Y1  - 1899/07/01
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1899.92450530015002b
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 15
EP  - 19
VL  - XXXIII
IS  - 1
N2  - SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE BOTTINI OPERATION. 
    One of the curses of old age is hypertrophy of the prostrate. Why it occurs in some unfortunates and not in others is a question that is difficult to answer, and if it could be answered it would then be possible to learn the cause, a question which now is such a puzzling one to the most learned and observing surgeons. It would seem natural to suppose that those who had in early youth suffered from venereal troubles, or had indulged too freely in the dissipation of life, would be the ones picked out for punishment in old age, but such does not seem to be the case, and in my personal experience it seems rather an unjust reward for the steady, the forbearing and the righteous.To describe just what this condition is would be to unfold a mystery which the most distinguished
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1899.92450530015002b
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.92450530015002b
ER  -