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In the early summer of 1817, the Professor of Anatomy and Surgery to the Royal College of Surgeons, William Lawrence, presented several cases of ‘Fungus Haematodes’ (including some reported by his colleague, George Langstaff, the attending surgeon for St Giles’ Cripplegate Workhouse). As part of his series, Langstaff recorded a case of extreme urinary blockage arising from, he supposed, a diseased prostate:
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Valier, H.K. (2016). The Problematic Prehistory of Prostate Cancer. In: A History of Prostate Cancer. Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56595-2_2
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