 | 1828 - 1010 pages
...is to end in his dissolution. When the hair becomes grey and scanty; when specks of earthy substance begin to be deposited in the tunics of the arteries ; and when a while zone forms at the margin of the cornea i at this same period the prostate gland usually, I might... | |
 | sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1st bart.) - 1832 - 332 pages
...has entered on that downward course, which is to end in his dissolution. When the hair becomes grey and scanty, when specks of earthy matter begin to...margin of the cornea, at this same period the prostate gland usually, I might perhaps say invariably, becomes increased in size. This change in the condition... | |
 | JOHN FORBES, EDITOR - 1842 - 632 pages
...individual has entered on that downward course which is to end in dissolution When the hair becomes pray and scanty, when specks of earthy matter begin to...white zone is formed at the margin of the cornea, at the same period the prostate gland usually—I might, perhaps, say invariably—becomes increased in... | |
 | George Edward Day - Geriatrics - 1849 - 266 pages
...disease. One of the highest authorities of the present day* observes in reference to this subject, that " when the hair becomes gray and scanty, when specks...deposited in the tunics of the arteries, and when a while zone is formed at the margin of the cornea, at this same period the prostate gland usually, I... | |
 | Samuel David Gross - Prostate - 1851 - 766 pages
...itself, for the first time, bj appropriate symptoms. " When the hair," observes Sir Benjamin Brodie,1 " becomes gray and scanty, when specks of earthy matter...margin of the cornea, at this same period the prostate gland usually, I might perhaps say invariably, becomes increased in size." This view, I am inclined... | |
 | Decimus Hodgson - Age factors in disease - 1856 - 138 pages
...classed it among the signs of bodily decay ; thus, Sir B. Brodie says, " When the hair becomes grey and scanty, when 'specks of earthy matter begin to...margin of the cornea, at this same period the prostate gland usually, I might perhaps say invariably, becomes increased in size." It is quite true that the... | |
 | Medicine - 1857 - 310 pages
...regarded it. Sir Benjamin Brodie, in the last edition of his < Lectures on the Urinary Organs/ says — "When the hair becomes gray and scanty, when specks...margin of the cornea, at this same period the prostate gland usually, I might perhaps say invariably, becomes increased in size." p. 163. Mr. Busk has called... | |
 | Sir Henry Thompson - 1858 - 388 pages
...that category of phenomena which marks the decline of life. Thus he says, " when the hair becomes grey and scanty, when specks of earthy matter begin to...margin of the cornea, at this same period the prostate gland usually—I might, perhaps, say invariably— becomes increased in size." Hence no other circumstances... | |
 | Robert Wade - 1860 - 408 pages
...eminent and experienced surgeons upon this point. Sir B. Brodie observes : " When the hair becomes grey and scanty, when specks of earthy matter begin to...of the cornea, — at this same period the prostate gland usually, I might perhaps say invariably, becomes increased in size." Mr. Guthrie has told us,... | |
 | Sir Benjamin Brodie - Medicine - 1865 - 798 pages
...has entered on that downward course, which is to end in his dissolution. When the hair becomes grey and scanty, when specks of earthy matter begin to...margin of the cornea, at this same period the prostate gland usually, I might perhaps say invariably, becomes increased in size. This change in the condition... | |
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One of the highest authorities of the present day* observes in reference to this subject, that " when the hair becomes gray and scanty, when specks of earthy matter begin to be deposited in the tunics of the arteries, and when a white zone is formed at... 
