Prostatectomy
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Sir,?Regarding the " Geographical distribution of the Prostatectomy operation " as mentioned in the reports of the eight c:ises of Prostatectomy by Capt. E. Owen Thurston, F.R.c.s., Civil Surgeon, Gaya, in your issue for February 191)9, I beg to inform you that, during my one year's service at the Dhubri Hospital (Assam) under Capt. H. Gidney, F.R.C.S.E., I.M.S., I had the good fortune to come across three well marked cases of enlarged Prostate. Capt. Gidney has, I believe, performed seven Prostatectomies in East Bengal and Assam. The Civil Surgeon gave me orders to examine very carefully the Prostate in each and every case with a present or past history of retention of urine and it was mainly due to this that these cases were detected. I think the disease is not uncommon in Assam though this opinion of mine is based on the detection of only three cases in a year in a Sadr
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